Is the end nigh for the Euro? [vol. 2]

[eharding]

Crusoe said:

Looks like the Greek bank run is in full swing, according to some twitter feeds

twitter said:

almost all ATM's are empty. There aren't any lines to see at all. It just shows "out of order". Shops and restaurants are refusing credit card and ask for cash...

Is that Sarkozy busking with the squeeze-box?

Poor little bleeder - that fall from grace didn't take long.

One day you're the President of France, the next you're busking for money to a queue of people who don't have any money.

Tough times indeed.

[WhoseGeneration]

Steffan said:

But, as the Songbird said 50 years ago, 'The times they are A'Changing'.

This is worth a look.

www.chrismartenson.com/blog/acknowledging-arrival-...

Probasbly not "news" to many here but I wonder whether such thoughts might enter the mainstream.

[RichardD]

WhoseGeneration said:

This is worth a look.

www.chrismartenson.com/blog/acknowledging-arrival-...

Probasbly not "news" to many here but I wonder whether such thoughts might enter the mainstream.

It could be, but it'd be frowned upon as how are the "vunerable" going to be protected from the big bad world without a huge state?

Edited by RichardD on Wednesday 16th May 15:33

[Crusoe]

Press report : German chancellor Merkel is to provide a statement at 15:30 BST, no topic given

[davepoth]

Crusoe said:

Press report : German chancellor Merkel is to provide a statement at 15:30 BST, no topic given

Presumably to give the tanks enough time to get to the border?

[bosscerbera]

RichardD said:

WhoseGeneration said:

This is worth a look.

www.chrismartenson.com/blog/acknowledging-arrival-...

Probasbly not "news" to many here but I wonder whether such thoughts might enter the mainstream.

It could be, but it'd be frowed upon as how are the "vunerable" going to be protected from the big bad world without a huge state?

Enter: Darwin.

[RichardD]

bosscerbera said:

Enter: Darwin.

I hope for all our sakes he does a good job but I for one am worried as that Arch Bishop bloke with the beard and curly stick looks like he means business!

[wormburner]

I've had a quick google, but I'm stumped...

..unless we're all really worried about the Home Builders Association of Tennessee, what is/are a/the HBAT(s)?

[Andy Zarse]

wormburner said:

I've had a quick google, but I'm stumped...

..unless we're all really worried about the Home Builders Association of Tennessee, what is/are a/the HBAT(s)?

Hanging By A Thread, in other words, the PIIGS.

[wormburner]

I see. Wasn't going to guess that. Ta.

[Andy Zarse]

wormburner said:

I see. Wasn't going to guess that. Ta.

We are not allowed to say PIIGs on here anymore as the acronym deeply upsets Driller!

[RichardD]

bosscerbera said:

Enter: Darwin.

I think I've changed my sides on this since I can't type "frowned" correctly I'm going to be lynched by the spelinng perleieieise.

[wormburner]

Andy Zarse said:

wormburner said:

I see. Wasn't going to guess that. Ta.

We are not allowed to say PIIGs on here anymore as the acronym deeply upsets Driller!

I feel like I should be whispering...but why not?

[DJRC]

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1131929/trad...

Some good news chaps, we are only 2.7bn quid short each month

[Andy Zarse]

wormburner said:

I feel like I should be whispering...but why not?

Driller lives in France and apparently folk down there are very touchy about the phrase. He thinks it's, well, not exactly racist but at least deeply offensive on a national level as it lumps in the HBATS together. IIRC the Spanish are most bristly about it. I suppose it upsets them as it suggest porcine politicians and populous have had their snouts in the EZ trough. And as we all know, that's not true.

[Steffan]

wormburner said:

I've had a quick google, but I'm stumped...

..unless we're all really worried about the Home Builders Association of Tennessee, what is/are a/the HBAT(s)?

A term coined by Driller, on this thread a while ago.

It is an anagram of 'Hanging By A Thread'.

[Driller]

(I don't know whether to feel annoyed that still no-one else gets why the P word is objectionable or all warm inside that in-spite of this and me being the only one who objects, HBATs has been adopted on this thread )

[bosscerbera]

Steffan said:

A term coined by Driller, on this thread a while ago.

It is an anagram of 'Hanging By A Thread'.

An anagram of 'Hanging By A Thread' is 'Yeah and bright nag'.

HBAT is an acronym derived from 'Hanging By A Thread'....

[anonymous-user]

Driller said:

(I don't know whether to feel annoyed that still no-one else gets why the P word is objectionable or all warm inside that in-spite of this and me being the only one who objects, HBATs has been adopted on this thread )

If you allow it to boil your piss you can achieve both?

[Crusoe]

getting some momentum now, ECB cuts off some Greek banks and ECB President Draghi just admitted that while the ECB Governing Council would like Greece to stay, they will not take any further extraordinary measures to save it and will do everything they can to preserve their 'pristine' balance sheet.