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Thread: Euro under pressure after Cowen allegedly hints at IMF help being needed

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    Quote Originally Posted by seabhac siulach View Post
    If Cowen actually believes the IMF may need to be called in, that the economy is in such dire straits, then his first duty is to communicate this directly to the Irish people...not break it to them secondhand while over in Japan (of all places...).
    Wouldn't be the first time he bumbly blundered.

    Remember when he announced that Ireland was committed to a second referendum on Lisbon -- to an audience of europeans in Brussels, rather than to the Irish people themselves.

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    Its funny that the IMF is now universally seen as a horseman of the economic apocalypse
    "Who will bailout the IMF after FF is finished with them?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauli View Post
    But the trend is down QuizMaster, as I said it would be.
    What downward trend ??
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