Jeremeconomics?

Ok, so Jeremy Clarkson isn't really known for his economics insight but following Top Gear's show in Dublin last week, he writes in yesterday's Sunday Times, about our continuing pursuit of the highlife here despite our fall into recession. The article is well written and worth a read.

"I was in Dublin last weekend, and had a very real sense I’d been invited to the last days of the Roman empire. As far as I could work out, everyone had a Rolls-Royce Phantom and a coat made from something that’s now extinct. And then there were the women. Wow. Not that long ago every girl on the Emerald Isle had a face the colour of straw and orange hair. Now it’s the other way around..."

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