Date: October 6th, 2009

Banking’s Wild Geese: Part 1, the casualties

6 October, 2009 (11:23) | Capital markets, Ireland, Lehman, Subprime, US News | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
O the Wild Geese are flying, O the Wild Geese are flying.
We’ve built your canals and railroads, our buildings reach the sky
– “The Wild Geese,” by Mike Harding
 
In 1691, after the Williamite Army crushed the Irish Jacobite army in the Battle of the Boyne, their army was allowed to disperse.  They took [...]