Is this a record? For what its worth, I dont think we are IMF bound, nor do I think we could get enough cash from them. However two IT comment pieces today muse on the IMF / euro medicine bolus being prepared (if it is) for stuffing down our throats if we dont get ourselves sorted
First is this piece
Nationalisation still required - The Irish Times - Mon, Apr 27, 2009
No country facing economic problems of this magnitude has come out of recession until the banking system has been healed. The Department of Finance believes that starting this can wait. I do not. Waiting until Nama gets rolling, then waiting more until (if) its legal challenges have been overcome, is in effect writing an invitation to the IMF to write a prescription and our euro zone colleagues to force it upon us.
and then this
Irish economy awaits siren of IMF ambulance - The Irish Times - Mon, Apr 27, 2009
This is something we either do ourselves or tough medicine will be imposed on us by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the European Union or a mixture of both. What would that be like?
Straws in the wind, the population being prepaered or two informed commentators calling it as they see it?