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AS IF HE weren’t already thought of as a bit of a legend, Pope Francis gave two lucky kids a lift around St Peter’s Square in the PopeMobile today, and by all accounts had the craic with them.
The Pope was driving through the Square in his white, open-air car during his general audience when he hopped off to chat to a group of schoolchildren. The kids gave him a t-shirt from their school in Perugia in central Italy.
The Pope asked – half jokingly – if any of them wanted to take a spin through the square and, predictably, the kids got VERY excited.
As they jostled to get picked, the Pope picked out 11-year-olds Livio Bastianelli and Davide Maria Bianchi, who were lifted over the barrier by the Pope’s bodyguards.
(Video: Vatican/Youtube)
The two kids hopped on board the car and drove the short distance with the Pope.
Livio told The Associated Press: “I was really excited. That never happens!”.
Any chance we could get a lift to the pub? No?
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Summary: Fat cat on huge money says prices should be rising faster so his job would be easier….
Nothing of the people (who pay his salary) and the effect of rising prices on those stretched folk.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. Rising inflation reduces effective debt burden. It also includes wage inflation.
Corrigan is one of the few competent people we have on Team Ireland.
You expect him to ditch his mandate to fund the state as economically as possible and instead do what?
@Jim. Are you saying it is more complicated than a one line summary…??? Really…!
Once Germany is happy that’s all I worry about.
Oh wait the coping classes have not entirely gone under yet!
Let’s throw some petrol on the fire and rack up the interest rates to ensure the wealthy banksters get a better return on their cash.
The inflation rate suits the German economy. One of the few countries in Europe that benefit from the Euro.
We are a experiment ,the paddy is a experiment , are their eyes bulging yet ,keep going and see what happens
Merkel’s representative on earth! Take a bow, sir!
Well we’re hardly going to have healthy inflation (or much inflation of any kind) if there’s flatlining consumer spending.
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