Category Archives: Finance Minister Brian Lenihan

Lenihan logic: heads you win and tails you win for the bondholders

Posted on September 28, 2010 by

Irish Finance Minister Demonstrates that he doesn’t believe in Capitalism By The Fundamental Analyst, on September 24th, 2010 Here again we see another case of those that embraced capitalism on the way up, shudder at the consequences when things go … Continue reading →

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This is an attack on our democracy!

Posted on September 4, 2010 by

By SHANE HEGARTY Irish Times.com PRESENT TENSE: IN 2004 Allied Irish Banks became embroiled in a furore when it was discovered to have overcharged foreign exchange customers to the tune of many millions. At the time the figure was put … Continue reading →

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Cutting Ireland’s Rating

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

by Reggie Middleton So, S&P finally gets around to Cutting Ireland’s Rating on the Cost of Bank Support, as reported by CNBC: Ireland’s financial headache worsened on Wednesday after Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating in a move criticized … Continue reading →

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Should the transfer of Anglo’s remaining NAMA tranches be put on hold ?

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

from source http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/author/namawinelake/ Should the transfer of Anglo’s remaining NAMA tranches be put on hold pending clarification of Anglo’s total costs? namawinelake | August 27, 2010 at 10:15 am Anglo has transferred a cumulative total of €16bn of its NAMA-bound … Continue reading →

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European bank stress test scam!

Posted on July 24, 2010 by

European bank stress test – official estimates signify NAMA is unintentionally overpaying for loans and undermine DoF’s claims about the Bottom namawinelake | July 24, 2010 at 6:28 am The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) together with the EC … Continue reading →

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New reserve currency

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

This is big trouble for the USA WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday shut down a Nevada bank, raising to 83 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The 83 closures so far this year is more than double … Continue reading →

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Preliminary Report Into Ireland’s Banking Crisis 31 May 2010

Posted on June 9, 2010 by

After reading the Preliminary Report into Ireland’s Banking Crisis one can only come to the conclusion that Cowen and Lenihan are Guilty of “Gross Incompetence and Dereliction of Duty” And should resign immediately and be brought before the courts on … Continue reading →

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What if this oil spill was off the coast of Ireland?

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

  If this had happened in Irish waters the Government would have told the nation that we were all responsible and we must all put our shoulder to the wheel and help stop this well from leaking any more of … Continue reading →

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Protesters at Anglo Irish Bank

Posted on May 16, 2010 by

  It appears the four people on ledger were arrested as well as two or three people who had been outside. All this took place in the space of ten minutes. Inspector Gannon who led the assault on Shell to … Continue reading →

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Lies and dam Lies from Brian Lenihan!

Posted on May 3, 2010 by

Quotes from Brian Lenihan since the bank guarantee: Source http://www.thestory.ie photo Machholz On Breakfast with Newstalk, April 26 2010. First of all, that’s the position in 2009, Eurostat hasn’t decided it yet, that’s our assesment of how they will decide … Continue reading →

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