Irlanda

Esta é sobre as várias Irlandas que há por aí, nós incluídos.

Tristemente, acho que está muito perto da realidade.

Muita da gestão de alto nível de hoje em todo o
mundo é feita, de facto, por um conjunto de putos
presumidos munidos de umas teorias balofas
materializadas em folhas de Excel.

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The markets want money for cocaine and prostitutes. I am deadly serious.

Most people don’t realize that “the markets” are
in reality 22-27 year old business school
graduates, furiously concocting chaotic trading
strategies on excel sheets and reporting to
bosses perhaps 5 years senior to them. In
addition, they generally possess the mentality
and probably intelligence of junior cycle
secondary school students. Without knowledge of
these basic facts, nothing about the markets
makes any sense-and with knowledge, everything
does.

What the markets, bond and speculators, etc, want
right now is for Ireland to give them a feel good
feeling, nothing more. A single sharp, sweeping
budget would do that; a four year budget plan
will not. Remember that most of these guys won’t
actually still be trading in four years. They’ll
either have retired or will have been promoted to
a position where they don’t care about Ireland
anymore. Anyone that does will be a major
speculator looking to short the country for
massive profit.

In lieu of a proper budget, what the country can
do-and what will work-is bribe senior ratings
agencies owners and officials to give the country
a better rating. Even a few millions spent on
bumping up Ireland’s rating would save millions
and possibly save the country.

Bread and circuses for the masses; cocaine and
prostitutes for the markets. This can be looked
on a unethical obviously, but since the entire
system is unethical, unprincipled and chaotic
anyway, why not just exploit that fact to do some
good for the nation instead of bankrupting it in
an effort to buy new BMWs for unmarried 25 year
olds.

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