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I Don’t Like Bankers And Lawyers. And Some Other Lot As Well

Dan Majestic writes: I don’t like bankers. I mean, I really don’t like them. I can’t imagine how anyone who considers himself to be a decent sort of person can work in an industry that is based on ripping people off. Mostly vulnerable people, like pensioners and students and poor folk generally. How on earth these scumbags live with it, I have no idea. None at all. Imagine, a banker comes home from work, having been packaging toxic debt all day to sell it to some naive buyers and conning investors out of their money, and his brain dead wife – bankers mostly have brain dead wives – has just let her plumber boyfriend out of the back door and is greeting him with a phony smile. ‘How was your day darling?’ she says to her banker husband, pecking him on... 

Heard Any Good Jokes About Bankers? I Bet You Haven’t

Adam Lovejoy writes: Heard any good jokes about bankers recently? I bet you haven’t, because there are none. Never have been, as a matter of fact. Mainstream comedians don’t mock bankers, you see. In case they get some sponsorship deals going for them from the money men, or a bit of advertising. Like those two clowns in Britain did, who are voicing over a TV ad campaign for a giant insurer. Street cred out of the window, but who cares if the money is good. The bankers should have been torn to shreds by now, on the stand-up comedy circuit at least, for what they’ve done to the world economy. But do you hear any worthwhile gags on the subject? No, you don’t. What the comedians come up with is not even remotely funny. Pathetic stuff, mostly. The clowns are not entertaining... 

A Recession-Busting Course On Con-Artistry: All Ex-Money Men Are Welcome

R.F.Wilson writes: Spare a thought for those money men who have lost their jobs. How will they manage? How will they support their families, indulge their mistresses and provide for their illegitimate children? Once masters of the universe now reduced to the ranks of the unemployed, how will they face the world? But help is at hand: StirringTroubleInternationally is launching a recession-busting course for the benefit of bankers, traders, brokers and investment fund managers to teach them how to become successful con-artists in areas outside the dusty arena of finance. STI, as Sam, our handyman calls us, has decided to throw a lifeline to all those market players and help them rebuild their lives. Of course, many of these former big guns have been brilliantly effective con-artists in the past... 

Comedians And Money Men. It’s Up To Bloggers To Take The Stage

Now that the money men have taken us all for a ride and misused our money, the only way to have a go at them is to mock and ridicule them. And who better to do that than comedians of all shapes and sizes and political orientation. Because most comedians always tell us that they take a strong stand against vested interests and big business. That is how they are, you see. They are independednt minded people and would laugh at anything. I have been hearing a lot recently about stand-up comedians in Britain supposedly making life very tough for the hated bankers. You know, mocking and ridiculing them and generally taking the piss, like comedians do. To listen to some people, top names in stand-up comedy are now mercilessly going after the money men and taking no prisoners. So I looked into this... 

How To Steal A Trillion From The Public Purse? A Cynical Look At Britain

Anton Goryunov writes from Moscow: Well, well, well. Let me tell you, people, who live in a supposedly democratic Britain, that here in Russia there are jokes going around how your Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has managed to bankrupt your country for the next 1000 years – all to save your banker boys from going to jail. And we, in Moscow, thought that misusing public money was something that only our leaders in Russia did. Well, not only in Russia: in China, Ukraine, North Korea and Cuba as well. Still, it was a bit of a cultural shock to find out that in Britain, in that cradle of Western democracy, it’s no big deal to steal a trillion, and get away with it. No one has said a word and no one has objected. Mr Brown has not only remained in power but is even telling everyone that... 

Of Bail Outs And Parliamentary Expenses: Has Good Old Britain Gone Bonkers?

Anton Goryunov writes: Is it just me, or has everyone gone bonkers in good old Britain? How is it that several hundred bankers rip off the whole nation, by getting tens of billions from the public purse to cover up their incompetence and corruption, and no one seems to mind, yet, when it comes to the expenses of several hundred members of parliament, which amount to a tiny percentage of what the money men have stolen, everyone is up in arms. OK, I understand that British MPs have been elected to serve the people, and if they are seen as being too generous to themselves it does look a bit annoying. But the thing is that the absolute majority of the MPs have not broken any laws and have not contributed to bankrupting the nation. What is two and half grand for a TV set? Or four grand for a gardener,... 

A Point About A Recent Spate Of Suicides Of Bankers: How About Calling In The KGB?

We, at StirringTroubleInternationally, have already made out views known on suicides, generally, and among the money men, in particular. We said that we were not in favour of people taking their lives because they lost all their money in the current crisis and called on everyone, who might have been contemplating such a drastic step, not to do it. But today I would like to make a point about some recent suicides of bankers that may shock some of you. But first I am going to tell you about a meeting I have had many years ago in the Soviet Union with a KGB investigator, who was involved in solving criminal cases. So that you know, some of the Directorates of the KGB were actually acting as law enforcement agencies, carrying out activities that are similar to the ones that the FBI in America... 

Why Is The Current Economic Crisis Downplayed By Politicians, Bankers And Hacks?

R.F.Wilson writes: Have you ever wondered why is it that the current economic crisis, which is more devastating than the Great Depression of the 1930s, is downplayed by politicians, bankers and hacks? It does look rather odd, does it not, that the crippling world recession and the widespread corruption and incompetence of the money men, who have caused the meltdown in the first place, are being presented as some relatively minor problems which are on the mend? World leaders talk about their wonderful ‘stimulus packages’ and the so-called serious economists and business editors are actually claiming that the world economic crisis is not really that bad and that they actually see the glimmer of recovery. Governors of central banks produce false figures about a supposedly non-existent... 

In My Ideal World Money Men Would Be In The Low Pay Category

The backlash has started in earnest: the public has had enough of the money men who have been insisting that they had nothing to do with the financial crisis that is raging across the world. The arrogance of bankers is astounding. Just as the readiness of governments to shield them. And the most scandalous thing of all is that the money men are still paying themselves bonuses, even when the money comes out of taxpayers’ bail-out packages. I would not be even surprised if they would start demanding compesations through the courts claiming that they suffered losses through no fault of their own. Just you wait and see. It just beggars belief that these multi-millionaires, who have created nothing during their whole lives, are still obsessed with enriching themselves further. They will... 

Gordon Brown Should Ask The Underworld To Help Him Out

R.F.Wilson writes: As the government’s measures to tackle the current financial crisis seem not to bring the desired results we would like to call on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to ask the underworld to help sort out the mess. Criminal groups have been used in the past in many countries, with conspicuous success: the complex network of the murky underworld in Elizabethan England and the hundreds of 20th century Italian politicians with links to the mob are historic examples. So here is a unique opportunity for Her Majesty’s government to reach a tacit agreement with crime bosses to issue a chilling warning to the money men, whose collective loss of memory about where all the money has gone is made worse by their casual relationship with the truth. As my colleague Thomas Mathew... 

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