(Romanian) Criminal Minds

You might remember I wrote a nifty little post about promoting fear in the press a short while back. Well lately the British media has been in full force, scaring their readers about dem ole sneaky snake Romanians (don’t you know they’re from Eastern Europe? Run for your lives!) Here’s one from the “Daily Mail”, a rather sleazy gossip newspaper, with a piece about how … Continue reading (Romanian) Criminal Minds

Highway to Hell

I came across this news that Cristian Sporis was named Deputy Finance Minister for the state treasury and noted that it was a remarkably unremarkable piece of news. Ho hum, another banker being appointed to help run a country’s finances, a move quite common everywhere from Italy to Greece to the United States and beyond. But it got me to thinking about banking in general. … Continue reading Highway to Hell