Monthly Archives: April 2011

Irish taxpayers should not complain about having to bailout the country’s crisis-hit banks and, in future, regulation should be steered at a European level, according to ECB executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi.

In an opinion piece in today’s Financial Times, Mr Bini Smaghi said Ireland’s taxpayers should foot the bill as they are the ones that benefited during the pre-crisis boom years and elected the governments that regulated the banks as the problems built.

Irish Taxpayers Should Foot The Bill (Irish Times)

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Twisternederland, Broadsheet’s favourite fail compiler (those other fail compilers meant nothing – we were thinking of Twister the whole time) has just released this epic selection featuring the most teeth-shattering, nad-mashing moments of the last two years.

It is a thing of horrible, horrible beauty.

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