Three months that will test the Eurozone | 223 comments (223 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

You'd think with all that influence the Irish would have been able to get themselves a better deal, eh?

Don't confuse the Irish being held up as an example with the Irish doing the pushing.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 11th, 2011 at 12:29:26 PM EST
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I am reminded of the period in the late 1980s (4.00 / 4)

when New Zealand was, for a couple of years, the poster boy of Chicago-school economics.

When it became obvious to everyone what an unmitigated disaster that was, it completely dropped off the radar (in fact the country was never heard of again)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Mon Apr 11th, 2011 at 12:38:48 PM EST
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Three months that will test the Eurozone | 223 comments (223 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)