Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Ant (Japan,China,germany) and Grasshopper(US,UK) and land/house prices

FT: Ant and Grasshopper and land/house prices

Martin Wolf @ FT put the subprime/property bubble in the ant/grasshopper analogy

Posted by easybetman @ 01:34 PM (679 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. letthemfall said...

Hence the origin of the American expression:

Quit bugging me!



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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 02:08PM Report Comment
 

2. techieman said...

LTF - good one! Ive read it and its a bit of a "i told you so" by Mr. Wolf.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 02:11PM Report Comment
 

3. drewster said...

Another folk expression along similar lines: "If you lend money to a friend, you lose both the money and the friend". I guess Germany and Greece used to be friends....

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 07:12PM Report Comment
 

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