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    In 30 years I’ve been in the business, the Gulf of Mexico has been called the Dead Sea countless times Full Article at FinFacts
    In 30 years I’ve been in the business, the Gulf of Mexico has been called the Dead Sea countless times
    – Bobby Ryan SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
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Thursday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - September 24, 2009
  1. It will be a matter for the Government to make a decision on how to find the appropriate savings to deal with the country's economic and financial difficulties. I am sure Opposition members will be constructive in their proposals as to where we will find savings of €4bn.
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  2. There has been a lot of concern that if you invest the government with the ability to decide what’s appropriate here and there, that will lead to less competition and choice. The chairman’s proposals, which I’ve had a chance to read quickly, provide a better balance of choice and protection.
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  3. There are always rifts between the Department of Finance and other government departments ... It doesn't make much difference because all of the departments have been consulted. They have all made their views known on the proposals made by Colm McCarthy and I'll be studying the departments' views.
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  4. The appetite for opening new frontiers when prices were low in the 1990s was very small ... Today, the biggest discovery of all is technology.
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  5. We want to see the 22 reports to finality ... We are concerned that a new board might want to forget about all this and move on.
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  6. That’s the wonderful thing about price signals in a free market — it puts people in a better position to take more exploration risk
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  7. A lesson from the financial crisis is that national super­visory structures are no longer sufficient to supervise inter­nationally active banks . . . [In] that respect the present suggestions are an important step
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  8. The agency will still have a primary role of protecting consumers, and it will still have authorities.
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  9. I anticipate further heavy discussion about this
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago
  10. We have had a crisis – and we have to learn from this crisis ... This proposal is a first
    SOURCE: FinFacts 1 month ago

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