THE KILKENOMICS FESTIVAL – a heady cocktail of economics and comedy (are the two ever far apart in this country?) – has attracted outspoken former trader Max Keiser to its 2011 line-up.
Kilkenny has had its share of economics showstoppers – economics professor Morgan Kelly spoke at last year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival to tell us it would take us at least a decade to recover from our current financial woes.
You might know Max Keiser, a former trader turned broadcaster and journalist, from his Keiser Report show on the former Russia Today channel. Last November, he and co-host Stacy Herbert discussed the austeristy measures forced on Ireland and said the Irish citizenry was being made to suffer for the banking sector’s mistake (from after 7:40 in the video below) with Keiser saying:
If only Bobby Sands had opened a bank; the IRA would have been a lot more successful. Like Anglo Irish Bank, they would have been a lot more successful in shaking down these governments had they opened up a bank.
So these Irish banking terrorists, there is a pot of gold at the end of their rainbow. But everyone else in Ireland is getting beat upside the head with a shillelagh stick of debt. What are these austerity programmes that they’re imposing on these poor Irish people – for what?Who is the guy who runs this bank (Anglo Irish)? Do we have some names here? Who is this Seán Fitzpatrick? I know he’s involved in one of these financial Irish terrorist games. How come he’s not in the Maze, right next to the cell where Bobby Sands sat? How come these bankers from Ireland are not in the Maze suffering through untoward punishment from the State for being financial terrorist, shillelagh-stick wielding, nightmarish little green goblins. Why?
Brace yourself, Kilkenny.
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