easing 14 November 2010
The Kilkenomics Festival this weekend in Kilkenny has been fantastic. Economists are the new cool…and some of them are very easy indeed on the eye. I sort of know what quantative easing is now and will misuse the phrase regularly for laughs from here on out. Also it’s clear that we’re totally fecked as a nation. Actually there is quite a palpable anger out and about as people wonder how has it come to this. We owe so much money and own some banks and will be paying back for it for many many many years and we didn’t really have any choice in all of this. The country has been badly managed and us ordinary mortals are carrying the can now. I think we have it within our grasp to effect real change, including ditching our civil war politics system finally, and that this may be a defining moment, but I also fear we’ll fudge it. People Power, however, really could work…
