Karmenu was just a bit too slow. Aaron will be much faster but will have to do the job twice (at least) just to correct his spelling, erase programmes which are already adopted by the government, insert pages somehow left out by computer error and by the time he finishes, it would be obsolete, anyway.

Economies and financial situations change by the hour and the Labour Party has no concept of what is really happening as we write. They have no idea how global markets work because their brain is still confined to the shores of our little rock.

They excel in doom and gloom, always see the glass half empty and have no clue what to do to fill the glass right up. Then they have the gall to state on public television that what Malta has today is all due to Labour governments of the past.

It is so convenient to remember the ‘golden years’ when it suits them but constantly chastise us for remembering the filthy and violent Socialist era.

The NP should wake up, and soon and fight fire with fire. Call them liars to their face because the would be armed with facts and not just smoke as Gulia, Bartolo et al dispense in copious amounts.

“On Monday, the ECB announced its intentions to purchase euro zone bonds in both Italy and Spain after both these countries declared new reforms and austerity measures with hope of boosting their economies respectively to demonstrate how serious they are to get on top of things.

Other than that – what’s next ?

After a temporary recovery illusion, we have to wait and see how this second phase of a double dip recession will develop. Will it truly follow 2008 into a full-scale financial meltdown? Will the state of the US economy improve soon to do dispel people’s fear that the US might go back into recession? And can the single currency, which is in dire straights, actually survive? (Obviously, the fragmentation of the Euro zone would make it much worse). Will major stock markets around the world (S&P500 and NASDAQ) continue to experience a downward trend while the Dollar (due to the news from Bank of Japan to “print” an extra 10 Trillion Yen) and gold continue to appreciate?”

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/08/nice-one-nikita-typical-imbarazz-in-josephs-skip/