Scots Taffer on 2/5/2010 at 08:48
You saw that concrete floor underneath the house, yeah?
thefonz on 3/5/2010 at 12:44
I have no shame these days; and as such here is some stuff I'm trying to shift before I move.
Let me know if anything catches your eye - this is to help fund my Kangaroo Army.
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http://16bitgeek.tumblr.com/post/567966817/items-for-sale) http://16bitgeek.tumblr.com/post/567966817/items-for-sale
Chimpy Chompy on 3/5/2010 at 14:02
Quote Posted by SD
With that attitude, I have to say: good fucking riddance.
Yeah sod off, highly qualified wealth-generating professional. Britain doesn't need you!
242 on 3/5/2010 at 14:27
From good rainy and cosy London to (a bit too) sunny Australia... a desperate venture... you'll have to live upside down.
jay pettitt on 3/5/2010 at 16:01
Careful not to sell too much - you'll need some toys to throw out of your pram as you leave.
Quote:
Yeah sod off, highly qualified wealth-generating professional. Britain doesn't need you!
That's funny, because nef reckons, thanks to the crash, (
http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/A_Bit_Rich.pdf) city bankers cost society £7 for every £1 they generate.
thefonz on 3/5/2010 at 16:10
Don't worry guys, I'm just a grease-monkey in the grand scheme of the finance world.
For the last time then:
THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN WAS NOT MY FAULT.
However, I am leaving the country because the Hot Fuzz are onto me.
Sulphur on 3/5/2010 at 19:34
Hot Fuzz? more like Inland Revenue amirite
Chimpy Chompy on 3/5/2010 at 19:51
Well believe me I'd love the country to do more than just banking. Was just snarking about the wider brain-drain effect.
And you and SD can have a little sneer about toys and prams etc but well, is it surprising that people might want to look abroad? Sure there are obviously worse places to live than the UK but possibly better places too. If you have better employment prospects, your money goes further, you can afford a bigger house in a nicer area etc.
rachel on 3/5/2010 at 20:33
Hell yeah
Chade on 3/5/2010 at 21:37
Quote Posted by TFA
Our model assumes that the financial crisis and recession would not have happened were it not for highly paid City bankers and traders engaging in extremely risky, opaque and complex transactions. We attributed the
entire measurable loss to the UK’s economy and public finances to an elite few thousand very highly paid financiers – those earning over £1 million in bonuses.
...
For a best estimate of value created, Office of National Statistics figures for gross value added (GVA) revealed that on average over the past decade financial intermediation in Inner London contributed 2.5 per cent to the nation’s GVA.
It would not be appropriate to attribute all of that contribution to the highest paid financiers ...
Well, at least they wear their hearts on their sleaves, I suppose ...
But in the wake of the great financial crisis, it boggles my mind that someone can fuck up an attempt to villify bankers. Or that anyone else would link to it. It's not like there aren't (
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/financial_innovation_fragility.april12.pdf) responsible criticisms to be found.
But hey, we're happy to take all the smart people we can get.
