Euro Zone Records First-ever Contradiction

[shnaek]

EURO ZONE RECORDS FIRST-EVER CONTRADICTION according to a stunning headline on RTE -
http://www.rte.ie/business/2008/0815/mibusiness.html

 

[Sylvester3]

Is contradiction the correct word here? I honestly don't know much about economic jargon, but I wondered if it is a mistype of contraction.

 

[shnaek]

Is contradiction the correct word here? I honestly don't know much about economic jargon, but I wondered if it is a mistype of contraction.

I should have put a in my post. Yes, it's a mis-spelling - but an amusing one!

 

[Sylvester3]

I should have put a in my post. Yes, it's a mis-spelling - but an amusing one!

Ah thanks! My humour detector must be off-line this morning!

 

[rmelly]

Idiots - do these guys even read the rubbish they are outputting?

Not sure if it was a spoof but here's a link somewhere to a screenshot from rte.ie news about the russian invasian of Gorey in Wicklow.:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd137/Green-Ink/Russia-Gorey.jpg

Plus if you check the news home page ([broken link removed]) today (17th), you'll find 'news' items from back as far as the 7th and 8th of August.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0807/inflation.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0808/jobs.html

Maybe news a week or 10 days ago, but surely not now? Has so little happened in those 10 days?

And we have to fund this through our licence fee? Ridiculous.

 

[rmelly]

I think someone from RTE.ie news must have been reading this thread:

[broken link removed]

All the old stuff is now gone - pity they didn't remove/hide the section seperators & RSS icons.

 

[redstar]

Is contradiction the correct word here? I honestly don't know much about economic jargon, but I wondered if it is a mistype of contraction.

Contraction ? Birth pains no doubt