For years, I thought my bank had a stock of anti-money in its vaults, and when my few shillings came into contact with the stuff, they were instantly annihilated.  They [...]

If you were in charge of a criminal investigation into the collapse of a bank, how many people would you put on the job? Hmm.  Now there's a tough one. [...]

If you go out with a gun and deliberately shoot someone dead, you're guilty of murder.  If you go out with a gun and shoot dozens of people dead, you're [...]

Tomorrow, the government will hand €700 million of public money to unsecured investors in Anglo. Unsecured! This is the text of an email I sent t our public representatives using [...]

It's not over yet.  The Greek government has put the terms of the new so-called bailout to a referendum. It will be rejected. And then what?  Where does that leave [...]

It's Wallowe'en, the dread night when a veil slips between our world and the grim otherlife, that half-lit place where shades groan and pookas flit, where untrod boards creak as [...]

I have an idea.  Why don't the Dale Farm travellers occupy Wall Street? A gang of angry Pavees with piebalds and campfires would piss off the bankers a lot more [...]

What is money? No. Seriously now, I'm not joking. Can you say what money is? I can't. I asked this question a good while back and nobody came up with [...]

Michael Noonan defends capitalism

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