Woops. Wall Street’s Barnaby

Scot says:

11:27am | 07/05/10

Tory, Even the Telegraph/Australian could not get it right the other day. They do not know their P’s and Q’s. Sorry M’s and B’s. And this a newspaper and TWO reporters plus a copy reader? http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/rudd-may-give-ground-to-miners-as-industry-holds-crisis-talks/story-e6frez7r-1225862349627

Zeta says:

12:38pm | 07/05/10

In a past life, I paid my way through university as a projectionist at an insipid multi-story 20 screen monstrosity that took the art of film and reduced it to its lowest common denominator. My last shift was the day before I graduated, which was the day Cheaper By The Dozen opened, which for me really symbolised everything I fear in life - ending up like Steve Martin, once an edgy, interesting guy reduced to being a comic foil in a children’s film.

The film had already been put together for showing when my shift started, so I chopped off the trailers for The Lizzie Maguire Movie and Rugrats and instead inserted trailers for: House of 1000 Corpses, The Grudge and the Texas Chainsaw massacre. The wailing. The gnashing of teeth. The panic attacks. It was beautiful. I walked down to the manager and quit mere seconds before the first angry Soccer mum started demanding a refund and threatening to sue.

Management tried to take the refunds for the film out of my last pay cheque - but the MEAA really came through for me and saved my annual leave. So I’ve always had a soft spot for that one particular union.

Darren says:

02:23pm | 07/05/10

and yet people like Abbott and Rudd blindly follow what ‘the market’ tells them!

shabangabang says:

02:51pm | 07/05/10

Does this mean we have gone from being out of the woods to being back in the woods? Stupid bread crumbs from the RBA have misled us again.

Overflow says:

03:10pm | 07/05/10

Tors, perhaps your piece could be retitled Woops. Wall Street’s Rudd given the result of the PMs foray into international mining incentives and foreign ownership!!  Rudd demonstrated how a PM can have massive effects on markets when compared to the mere rants of a oppositon spokesman.

nic says:

03:51pm | 07/05/10

Yes Tors, don’t forget Rudd has introduced a tax causing instability in the confidence about our nation as an investment option (wiping millions off the value of shares) at the very same time that Greece and the EU are experiencing problems, ones that affect the value of world currencies. So what was it that bid bad ole Barnaby did again?

Ryan says:

03:53pm | 07/05/10

I wonder if Citigroup made a nice profit off that “mistake” ?

Simon Brodie says:

03:58pm | 07/05/10

Whilst working in the corporate provisioning dept of a medium sized telco, I disconnected a call center of a large stock broker, 7 days early,and casing them to loose 1.4mil in commissions. I bought my supervisor some chocolates, and she scored a larger training budget!

Joe says:

05:21pm | 07/05/10

What’s with the Barnaby? Last time I looked Barnaby Joyce was the only one trying to highligt the dangerous situation which now exists in international finance.
I suppose you might have scored a few brownie points with the establishment, well done.

Rich says:

10:49pm | 08/05/10

I broke the Internet once. Just for a short time.

wake up to the manipulation says:

02:23pm | 10/05/10

As if.
More like a “Turnbull”
More Goldman Sachs intervention.