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"Whatever It Takes" Stage Two; Headwinds Explain Why Draghi Will Fail (Again)
Townhall.com ^ | November 7, 2014 | Mike Shedlock

Posted on 11/07/2014 11:09:09 AM PST by Kaslin

"What's it all about Alphie" is a sing-along that most have heard.

Take out the word "Alphie" and substitute "Draghi" and the answer is "Assuage Investors" in yet another can-kicking exercise.

ECB president Mario Draghi hopes that if he continues with his kick-the-can tactics long enough, that something good will eventually happen.

Hope is really all the ECB has.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; ecb; europeanunion; mariodraghi; nato; nigelfarage; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 11/07/2014 11:09:09 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Alphie?

Oh come on. Two seconds with Google will tell you that What's It All About, Alfie are the first words of a song called "Alfie," which was the theme of a movie called Alfie, released in 1966 and starting Michael Caine, among others.

The song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

2 posted on 11/07/2014 11:18:18 AM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Steely Tom

Perhaps the writer was trying to be clever, using the “F” sound of “ph” and the “F” sound of “gh” as a tie-in, and making both words the same length?

No?

Well, I tried... < BG >


3 posted on 11/07/2014 11:37:24 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
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