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I've just watched my idea fo a great comedy show, a Money Programme special on how Porsche beat the hedge fund markets last october. I laughed all the way through.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 03:03:53 PM EST

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What makes their participation laudable?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 03:17:55 PM EST
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I did find associated financial sharks crying into their milk at being outwitted by a staid german carmaker most entertaining.

and the fact that they didn't think for a second that something odd was happening when Volkswagen seemed to be avoiding the market events that was efecting every other single carmanker. After all it couldn't be anything that they were doing was possibly wrong.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 03:31:51 PM EST
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well, Volkswagen (none / 0)

managed to increase sales, overall, in 2008. Not many manufacturers managed that.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 05:42:18 PM EST
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Thursday Open Thread | 86 comments (86 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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