European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 October | 174 comments (173 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

LOL (none / 1)

Too many commission workers have their bank accounts at Fortis, I would suspect...

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 30th, 2008 at 04:34:27 PM EST
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Re: LOL (none / 0)

Are you saying the Commission should properly be shooting down the bank rescues as "Illegal state aid"?

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 30th, 2008 at 04:40:21 PM EST
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Re: LOL (4.00 / 3)

Don't know about "should properly", but "would normally" sounds about right.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Sep 30th, 2008 at 05:08:32 PM EST
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Re: LOL (none / 1)

According to rules applied to other sectors, yes indeed.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 02:29:13 AM EST
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Re: LOL (none / 0)

Then we need to start questioning the Commission when they apply the rules to other sectors.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 03:03:04 AM EST
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Re: LOL (none / 1)

Banks aren't a cosmetic company.

At this point (with h/t to ChrisCook) they are the lynch pin of an economy. Pull it and watch the whole edifice collapse.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 03:06:30 AM EST
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Re: LOL (none / 0)

But then they have no business being run for the profit of their management.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 03:09:54 AM EST
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Re: LOL (4.00 / 2)

That's why there used to be Regulations and Controls on banks so we wouldn't get into this mess, again (as in 1888, 189something, 1905, and 1929.)

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 03:28:52 AM EST
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you say 'lynch pin', Bhagwati says 'death threat' (4.00 / 2)

ATinNM: At this point (with h/t to ChrisCook) they are the lynch pin of an economy. Pull it and watch the whole edifice collapse.

"Finance is so central and peculiar, so essential, and yet it carries a death threat for the economy," said Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia. "What we've seen, once again, is that finance is a very powerful instrument, but one that needs to be intensively watched."

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 03:30:02 AM EST
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