Comments on: Would you buy a used economic policy from these people?

By: FCAblog » Rent-a-gob

FCAblog » Rent-a-gob — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:42:36 +0000

[...] as it happens, the left also has its gaggle of useful idiots who, like a demented army of Churchill nodding dogs, can be counted on to add their signature to [...]

By: Davinder Kohli

Davinder Kohli — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:55:41 +0000

Why is there so much jealousy on this website?

By: So Much For Subtlety

So Much For Subtlety — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:31:35 +0000

Still it does have one useful side effect – it gives a good indication of which Business Schools offer a degree that is probably wealth-reducing in the long run, to whit:

Geoffrey Hodgson, Research Professor of Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Prof Hugh Willmott, CardiffBusinessSchool

Prof Karel Williams, ManchesterBusinessSchool

Prof Malcolm Sawyer, LeedsUniversityBusinessSchool

Prof Martin Parkker, Schoolof Management,. Universityof Leicester

Prof Peter Case, BristolBusinessSchool

Prof Prem Sikka, EssexBusinessSchool

Prof Stefano Harney, Schoolof Business& Management, QMUL

By: So Much For Subtlety

So Much For Subtlety — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:28:10 +0000

Newmania – “Oh my days Sunny Hundal , he is always signing things in the Guardian .Its really the renta -mob of the 70s in virtual and printed form”

What has Hundal ever done? I really don’t get it. He hasn’t been on Big Brother or one of these TV reality shows has he? How does that make any less pointless than that tart whose now knocked up by some footballer after having her tits done? I don’t understand why people ask him to sign things much less write them. Why does he get the attention he does? Is he like those people who crashed Obama’s party but much more successful – that is, he is always signing things so people ask him to sign things.

Because all I can see he has ever done is run a blog that virtually no one reads. Just a small group of refugees from CiF.

By: Andrew K

Andrew K — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:22:54 +0000

My first thought was that it was vacuous rubbish. But then I saw the name Andrew Simms…….

By: vimothy

vimothy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:49:45 +0000

I don’t care what their names are, the route they travel to work, or where they buy green groceries.

I love the definition of socially useful above. Mass government intervention in markets is thus “socially useful” as long as it is a direct transfer to financial speculators.

By: Kay Tie

Kay Tie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:47:14 +0000

“Round up the usual suspects!”

By: Ian Bennett

Ian Bennett — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:21:53 +0000

More seriously, they’ve invoked Glass-Steagall, so they’re obviously aware of the investment / retail diversification, yet they’ve not bothered to mention that the division getting the bonus is not the one that made the loss. If the two divisions had been separated, the retail arm would still have “needed” state bail-out, and the investment arm would still have made robust profits.

By: PC

PC — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:18:42 +0000

There’s that term popping up again: “socially useful”.

Surely “socially useful” is whatever market participants decide it is! I don’t expect this list of “socially useless” to understand that, however.

By: Newmania

Newmania — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:18:41 +0000

Oh my days Sunny Hundal , he is always signing things in the Guardian .Its really the renta -mob of the 70s in virtual and printed form

By: Ian Bennett

Ian Bennett — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:15:36 +0000

In his defence, Dave Prentis probably hasn’t read it. (Too many long words.)

And Sally Ruane can’t even spell the name of her university.