thanks newbunch..i wouldn`t have read that article if you didn`t give me a heads up on it. keep up the good work....it was an interesting article...and I guess that`s another reason so many banks in ireland will get new poker accounts for online gaming.....they are not a bunch of "regulators" looking to destroy capital golden gooses like america!
it has absolutely nothing to do with laziness, when someone makes a statement of fact it is helpful to have a citation. unfortunately this board is replete with statements that are meant to be taken as fact and are dead wrong. ie hot air. you received a "heads up" from bluestreak and others(silently) which you never would have gotten if you had not been prodded to post your source,
ECB's Weber Signals Support for More Rate Increases http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=alX7ifig31hY
From the Telegraph: Debt-driven private equity houses face a tenfold increase in corporate defaults, one of the industry's leading figures has warned: âDebt markets have been loose on credit standardsâ. Jon Moulton, the founder of Alchemy Partners, said he expected default levels across Europe to rise from the current EUR to "anywhere between EUR10bn and EUR40bn" over the next few years. There is currently EUR600bn of highly-leveraged debt backing European companies, the majority of which is held by private equity-owned businesses. Even a rise in defaults to the low end of this range could mean "a highly leveraged company will get into trouble roughly once a week with maybe a third of them in the UK", he said. Source http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/12/18/cnequity18.xml
Just to recall everybody ou there that banks have not changed their risk taking methods... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSIN52564120091026
I have an idea why... ( it's look like a joke, however... ) it's because they know that we are leaving in the new model of economic, where relative scarcity is the rule...