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When Will Quinn Apologise To Ireland?

I know that it’s the silly season, but there are things that should be a joke, but unfortunately aren’t. Apparently, the good burghers of Fermanagh District Council has sent a letter of support to Sean Quinn and his family. For

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Apple Makes Money Isn’t Man Bites Dog

There’s been an awful lot of coverage of Apple’s most recent financial results. The results were (kind of) incredible, but even so, the level of coverage seems slightly overblown. MG Siegler, no stranger to the Apple love letter, manages 1,085

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Spoof Big Three Bail-Out Ad

And so it goes on: more jokes based on the fall-out from the financial crisis. This one didn’t exactly make me laugh, but it did raise a smile. I particularly like the (very insightful) small-print. You probably thought it was

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Bleed The World

I know I shouldn’t laugh really, but it’s hard not to: charity record Feed The World re-imagined for the credit crunch as Bleed The World – give money for those who will only be able to afford one Ferrari this

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Cow Economics

Popbitch has an amusing little thing called cow economics. It uses the idea of owning cows to describe various different types of economic systems. A couple of my favourites include: AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don’t

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Next Week’s Economist?

Some bright spark has done a bit of photo-shopping to supposedly show next week’s Economist cover. It made me laugh (but then I’ve always been easily amused). I actually read The Economist whenever I travel and, on my way back

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How Subprime Really Works

  Once again I’m showing how fashionably out of touch I am by posting something months after everyone else. Still, what the hell – we’ll all be living in cardboard boxes and trying to learn the words to ‘Brother Can

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Is It Just Me

Anyone wishing that they had paid more attention in A Level Economics? Me too.

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Everything on this site is the opinion of me, Ciarán Norris, and no-one else, including my employers and anyone else I know. I guess that it's probably obvious, but thought I should probably make it explicit. Anyway, enjoy!


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