Now look here, A E-P at The Telegraph, I rely on you for my daily dose of misery. You have been telling me for yonks that 'the end of the financial world is nigh' and I have purchased a really nice set of sackcloth and put together a fine collection of ashes ready for the day China goes broke, the EU disintegrates, America closes its borders to everyone and everything, Venezuela takes over the whole of South America and we have to go cap in hand to the Jocks for a loan! I'm not complaining, it assuaged the masochist longings that I possess.
But today you have ruined all that by publishing an article telling me that - gulp! - all is well with the world! China is poised for recovery, America is doing alright and Spain and Ireland are leading Europe out of recession. This is definitely not the sort of 'Good News' that I want to hear, so will you please revert to your normal Cassandra role and 'do' some more misery. Thank you!
Relax David, it's the silly season. The papers will publish any old guff in August, but when the kids go back to school and the grown-ups have time to really study things again, the doom'n'gloom will be back to full strength.
Posted by: Kevin B | Wednesday, 05 August 2015 at 12:49
Peyote all around?
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 05 August 2015 at 13:04
Thank God for that, Kevin, I can't stand all this good cheer!
As always, Whiters, you are an education. I knew the word 'peyote' but until I just looked it up I had no idea what it was.
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 05 August 2015 at 14:28
David if it was not the Irish or the Spanish that were leading the charge then it would be someone else. It is pyhcological just to put people at ease with the all is almost well scenario. Another crash will happen after another boom that is how capitalism works. Get rid of the dead wood and start again.
No one has come up with an alternative.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Wednesday, 05 August 2015 at 16:52
Even better news from AEP: The Camel-shaggers are fucked: --
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilprices/11768136/Saudi-Arabia-may-go-broke-before-the-US-oil-industry-buckles.html
Let's hope they go for one last desperate roll of the dice and zap those Iranian nuclear facilities, backed up with a full scale invasion.
That should keep the hairies of both persuasions busy for at least a century.
SoD
Posted by: Lawrence Duff | Wednesday, 05 August 2015 at 23:09
Lawrence. I thought the USA were on friendly terms with Saudi and prepared to protect them from Iran.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Thursday, 06 August 2015 at 00:12
Japan are going to propose a new nuclear treaty. Maybe Putin, the Chinese and Iran will be monitors.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Thursday, 06 August 2015 at 00:43
Come on Jimmy - keep up! The current president of the USA is going to protect the Iranians from all comers. This is a slight reversal of the previous policy, which you mention.
Posted by: backofanenvelope | Thursday, 06 August 2015 at 07:35
Quite so, Jimmy.
We wouldn't want the Sunni faction to be so weakened it goes down without a fight. But remember, the camel-shaggers alone are still the 5th largest military in the world, plus you've got the other Sunni petro-states, bristling with Western hi-tech weaponry.
We just need to even the odds up a little, hence letting the Persians back into the trading world, while Saudi wilts from falling oil revenue.
Once the prize fighters weigh in at the same, ding, ding, round one of the neo-Thirty Years War (AEP even refers to the Thirty Years War now, D&N reader, perhaps?).
SoD
Posted by: Lawrence Duff | Thursday, 06 August 2015 at 07:45
Read the radio conversation between the Sunni and Shia fighters and then watch the Python scene again: -
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9122371/armageddon-awaits/
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHitXxH-us
Sometimes real life and parody are indistinguishable.
SoD
Posted by: Lawrence Duff | Thursday, 06 August 2015 at 08:05
Jimmy, we are friendly with the Saudis but wary. They are like wise with us. If the Arab world blows up....yes that is an awkward phrase, maybe the Navy can remove 5th Fleet and put it somewhere useful. Like augmenting the 3rd Fleet with emphasis on threats coming from Washington, DC.
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 06 August 2015 at 13:15