Wednesday, July 13, 2011

now Ireland's public debt is rated by Moody's as junk

Portugal last week, Ireland this week.  No-one will be much surprised but these ratings affect the interest rate that gets charged by lenders so more of Irish taypayers' money will be used to pay interest.

Ireland's economy was particularly fueled by banks lending to property speculators and the bankers were given big bonuses for doing so. Then it all crashed.  See the previous posts about bnz.

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