Brian M. Lucey

Tag: dumb

  • The Stupid… IT BURNS.. IT BURRRRRNNNS

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    Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb… Agrabah? While U.S. airstrikes in Syria continue to dominate foreign-policy headlines, the Republican electorate won’t so easily forget about another Middle Eastern menace. According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, 30 percent of Republican voters nationally support bombing Agrabah. Just 13 percent are opposed, while the rest remain…

  • Hegemonic Germany and the death of trust in banking.

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    This is a revised and extended version of a post in The Irish Examiner newspaper Monday 18 March 2013. At the heart of modern finance is the concept of the Risk Free Rate. That is the rate of return on an asset whose repayment is certain. For many years we have sought this and now…