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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 10 June | 100 comments (100 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

So let me get this right; the last year or so of fiscal restraint has turned these companies around to the extent that they can pay back a lot of money to ensure that they can make an early return to the behaviours that brought them down in the first place.

These are the lemmings that climbed back up the cliff just so's they could jump in a second time.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 9th, 2009 at 04:57:43 PM EST
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or.... (4.00 / 5)

proof positive that lipstick on a pig works if you own the media and the Serious People.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 9th, 2009 at 05:54:59 PM EST
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Re: Economy and Finance (none / 0)

Looks like taking all of that money and speculating in the oil market paid off. No?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Jun 10th, 2009 at 07:46:59 AM EST
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