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Thread ID: 94720	2008-11-09 18:40:00	Good Riddance to Cullen	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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719069	2008-11-11 07:47:00	That would be me Laura. I'm speaking from a financial policy perspective. Did you know he wrote a book? It was titled "The Statistical Movement in Early Victorian Britain" - which compared to John Keys qualifications, seems woefully inadequate for managing our economy. He was out of his depth, a view shared by those who understand finances, e.g. darrenrickard.blogspot.com Consider also Laura he brought this on himself. No-one asked him to use words like 'rich prick'. :cool: You'd probably need to know more about the circumstances behind this http://www.shareinvestor.co.nz/ before putting any credence in Darren Rickard. Calling John Key a 'rich prick' was out of order, after all he only just makes the NBR Rich list (Sir Robert Jones has x5 times the money) and that title belongs to Fay and Richwhite.	PaulD (232)
719070	2008-11-11 09:06:00	Grumpy today are we? Maybe you should go and have a nap, come back when you can be nice again. A dual jump would be nice.	Cicero (40)
719071	2008-11-11 11:10:00	So you think that money men know how to run economies do you? People like john key are the ones who caused the present crisis and they still don't think they did anything wrong, they just want someone to bail them out so they can get back to doing what they always have done. I suggest he is exactly who we don't need to run the country. Right Wing monetarism and suchlike is a complete failure and the system will have to be re-booted from the bottom up. Monkey money men should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. Have a read of this: www.nybooks.com	zqwerty (97)
719072	2008-11-11 11:42:00	So you think that money men know how to run economies do you? People like john key are the ones who caused the present crisis...Interesting. How exactly do you think that forex trading caused a global problem with credit? I'd love to hear your explanation for this, as I was under the impression that the current mess was caused by lending institutions being far too free about giving credit to those who really shouldn't have got it (or at least not at those rates, and in such large numbers). Note the following quote from your own linked article: "Consider how the crisis has unfolded over the past eighteen months. The proximate cause is to be found in the housing bubble or more exactly in the excesses of the subprime mortgage market. The longer a double-digit rise in house prices lasted, the more lax the lending practices became. In the end, people could borrow 100 percent of inflated house prices with no money down. Insiders referred to subprime loans as ninja loans—no income, no job, no questions asked." ...and they still don't think they did anything wrong...Nothing wrong with being successful and making money zqwerty - what is inherently wrong about forex trading? ...they just want someone to bail them out so they can get back to doing what they always have done....*Ahem* Time to bring out the big red letters - John Key neither asked for a bailout nor tried to go back to what he was doing. He made a ton of money in a market where doing so is exceedingly difficult unless you are very, very good at the field. He sensibly got out while at the top of his game and went to do something else. ...I suggest he is exactly who we don't need to run the country. Right Wing monetarism and suchlike is a complete failure and the system will have to be re-booted from the bottom up. Monkey money men should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. <snip>He may or may not make a good PM - time will tell. That said though, his experience with forex markets should make him a formidible political leader - both fields require the ability to make the right choices under pressure, to react to new events extremely quickly without making mistakes, to think accurately on-the-fly, and a good understanding of the way economies work. Not that I'm discounting your views here, but I haven't heard a shred of evidence from you to back all this up - care to enlighten us?	Erayd (23)
719073	2008-11-11 17:14:00	New Zealanders have been lambasted in an Australian newspaper for showing all the reasoning of a "doped slug" in ditching Helen Clark for John Key. ... "New Zealanders just got bored. :thumbs: And thats all Saturdays vote was..	Myth (110)
719074	2008-11-11 18:12:00	I suggest she take a running jump Andrew. Nothing worse than a bad judge of character. No problem in judging your character Cicero. A mean-spirited, abusive reactionary. Martynz	martynz (5445)
719075	2008-11-11 19:12:00	No problem in judging your character Cicero. A mean-spirited, abusive reactionary. Martynz Very true Marty,make that a trio jump.	Cicero (40)
719076	2008-11-12 04:53:00	At times, Cicero, like all of us, can be petty, but I do believe that at heart he is a very kind person who likes to participate in edgy conversations and occasionally crosses the line. I do think that martynz is being too harsh in that criticism of Cicero, for whatever my opinion is worth.	zqwerty (97)
719077	2008-11-12 07:13:00	I think Ciccy just like to rark you fellas up. He lays the bait and you bite.	rob_on_guitar (4196)
719078	2008-11-12 08:43:00	I think Cicero is a jolly good fellow.	prefect (6291)
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