Acropolis Now

[gaelic cowboy]

Portugal exports pics of children? Kiddie porn?

Lol Louis Louis you never fail to get a laugh from me

[Jolt]

Portugal exports pics of children? Kiddie porn?

Something worse. We export the name of a Portuguese born mercenary/traitor who sold himself to the Spanish crown (Against the Manueline Ordenances), to sail around America and reach the Mollucas, on the name of our home-produced laptops.Magalhães/Magellan

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3...Magalh%C3%A3es

[Louis VI the Fat]

Something worse. We export the name of a Portuguese born mercenary/traitor who sold himself to the Spanish crown (Against the Manueline Ordenances), to sail around America and reach the Mollucas, on the name of our home-produced laptops.Magalhães/Magellan

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3...Magalh%C3%A3es

And it's such a runaway international succes that Wikipedia can suffice with describing the thing only in Portuguese!

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Meanwhile in Ireland well make the highly expensive processors in Kildare for ye.

No, you make butter and Stout!

[Jolt]

And it's such a runaway international succes that Wikipedia can suffice with describing the thing only in Portuguese!

It started like, one year ago. In one year, with an economy the size of our own, you can't expect to have Magalhães's from Mexico to Japan. Then there is the computer's own Economy of Scale.

[Furunculus]

Germans suspect French Banks of using the ECB to ditch Greek debt, and thus clear up their balance sheets, whilst German banks do the noble thing and agree to hold onto Greek debt until 2013.

the EU transfer union is now in full swing:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...697680,00.html

[Vladimir]

Can anyone place this in context? Say, international banking within the last 50 years?

Value is based on perception. I'm beginning to perceive financial institutions as fiction authors.

[gaelic cowboy]

Can anyone place this in context? Say, international banking within the last 50 years?

Value is based on perception. I'm beginning to perceive financial institutions as fiction authors.

There would be an element of truth to this as these institutions make money from transactions and not saving "Churn Churn is there battlecry"

[Vladimir]

There would be an element of truth to this as these institutions make money from transactions and not saving "Churn Churn is there battlecry"

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying.

It seems to me that they're making it up as they go.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Something worse. We export the name of a Portuguese born mercenary/traitor who sold himself to the Spanish crown (Against the Manueline Ordenances), to sail around America and reach the Mollucas, on the name of our home-produced laptops.Magalhães/Magellan

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3...Magalh%C3%A3es

The Tagali stamped paid on his account. But he grabbed the credit for a circumnavigation anyway!

[gaelic cowboy]

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying.

It seems to me that they're making it up as they go.

The more transactions there are the more fee's they earn, the less transactions ie the more saving the less fee's they earn.

[rory_20_uk]

With Pensions the rate of churning has massively increased over the last 60 years. Since few are aware, there's good commission in doing almost nothing repeatedly.

[Vladimir]

With Pensions the rate of churning has massively increased over the last 60 years. Since few are aware, there's good commission in doing almost nothing repeatedly.

I knew I should have went into banking!

[Strike For The South]

So the Germans are taking over smaller European countries in the name of stability.

I've seen this movie before

[Banquo's Ghost]

So the Germans are taking over smaller European countries in the name of stability.

I've seen this movie before

This time however, they are having to pay up front instead of getting the bill in arrears.

[rory_20_uk]

I knew I should have went into banking!

Same here. Taking time to slide across.

[drone]

This time however, they are having to pay up front instead of getting the bill in arrears.

Maybe this time the French will remember to put troops on the Belgian border...

[Vladimir]

Maybe this time the French will remember to put troops on the Belgian border...

"French jockey on a German horse."

They'll be fine.

[drone]

"French jockey on a German horse."

They'll be fine.

Not if their banks keep taking advantage.

[Furunculus]

time to introduce the Neuro:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...ean-dream.html

welcome to the Neurozone!

[Furunculus]

interesting article on Britain's problems:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...oing-bust.html

Too much our our debt is index-linked to inflation to let us get away with inflating our way out of debt.

[Beskar]

interesting article on Britain's problems:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...oing-bust.html

Too much our our debt is index-linked to inflation to let us get away with inflating our way out of debt.

I find it interesting how multinationals are purposefully trying to get Britain-to-bust to line their pockets. I have to actually agree with the European plans get rid of the vermin.

[Furunculus]

that is a stupid sentiment, for one simple reason; you cannot buck the markets when you require 10% of your annual spending from market lending.

markets take a risk in lending to government, so they charge an interest rate, if they hold debt to which they have little confidence the government intends to repay, then they are right to dump it on some other market player with a higher tolerance for risk.

i will support punitive measures against market speculation ONLY when governments get their own affairs in order and stop spending well in excess of the revenue.

[Louis VI the Fat]

The ECB was located in Frankfurt for a reason, to let a culture of German monetary discipline seep through in its workings.

I want stern, pointy-helmeted Teutons, preferably devoid of any sense of humour too, to govern the currency. Curse the modern Germans, their modesty and their allergy to rule others!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Maybe this time the French will remember to put troops on the Belgian border...

Not that I'd want to mistake a little tease for a historical analysis, but:

The best troops and the whole of the British Expeditionary Force were at the Belgian border, fully expecting Germany to attack from the north by invading a neutral country without warning again.

As the French and British rushed north to finally protect Belgium and the Netherlands, which they had declined all this time so as not to antagonise Hitler, the Germans rushed south. It immediately became a war of mobility, of decentralised intiative, of pinpointing force. This the Germans excelled in, the war was lost virtually from the start.

[Furunculus]

we can only hope that such a culture permeates germany's neighbours, but it does indeed appear that germany is acquiring some self confidence.

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interesting parallel between how estonia dealt with the crisis compared to greece:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...698299,00.html

[gaelic cowboy]

The ECB was located in Frankfurt for a reason, to let a culture of German monetary discipline seep through in its workings.

I want stern, pointy-helmeted Teutons, preferably devoid of any sense of humour too, to govern the currency. Curse the modern Germans, their modesty and their allergy to rule others!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Not that I'd want to mistake a little tease for a historical analysis, but:

The best troops and the whole of the British Expeditionary Force were at the Belgian border, fully expecting Germany to attack from the north by invading a neutral country without warning again.

As the French and British rushed north to finally protect Belgium and the Netherlands, which they had declined all this time so as not to antagonise Hitler, the Germans rushed south. It immediately became a war of mobility, of decentralised intiative, of pinpointing force. This the Germans excelled in, the war was lost virtually from the start.

You could say the Germans basically agreed to the Euro in exchange for the right to unify Germany again. The stability and growth pact rules were as loose as they were because Germany made them so.

[Furunculus]

the Bilderberg group is getting the jitters over the Euro's survival:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7142478.ece

[gaelic cowboy]

the Bilderberg group is getting the jitters over the Euro's survival:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7142478.ece

Bah nothing to see here everyone knows it's the Grand High Lizard Queztaclejythasd who give the Bilderbergers there orders, even now I can feel the radio waves bouncing off the tinfoil I am using to block the brainwashing.

In fact i found a picture of her from her cloaked battleship

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Your Lizard Overlords have decreed that this was a hotlinked picture in violation of the Shadow Proclamation. Please stand still while the Black Helicopters arrive and remove your brains for processing into food additives.

[gaelic cowboy]

Speaking of Bilderbergers though the Trilateral Commision met in the Four Seasons in Dublin recently

Big money boys back pressing the flesh as potential investors gather

No crisis for Cowen as he keeps the economic big-wigs waiting

[Tellos Athenaios]

Hmm. Furunculus' link is sure an interesting read, as is what a commenter posted: http://gregpytel.blogspot.com/