About a month ago, venture capitalist Chris Sacca wrote this on Twitter. Journalism: The art of ignoring all the facts that don’t support the article you’ve already written. I retweeted this and replied: The same could be said for my blogging…. Sacca’s quote generated some discussion on Twitter and some email as well. Some asked [...]
Ireland
When Irish Eyes are Crying
Michael Lewis on how Merrill Lynch stuck the Irish people with 106 billion euros in debt. Ireland’s financial disaster shared some things with Iceland’s. It was created by the sort of men who ignore their wives’ suggestions that maybe they should stop and ask for directions, for instance. But while Icelandic males used foreign money [...]
The collapse of the Irish Tiger
Doug Saunders writes in the Globe and Mail that the government in Ireland has collapsed. The party oversaw an escalating series of austerity bills during the past three years that failed to alleviate a crisis driven by over-leveraged private banks. It sealed Ireland’s fate with a 2008 bill that used state funds to bail out [...]
