quiries pt 1 or Bad Things That Happen

(From Saville, Phillips, Stafford and the Bank of England with 5-15% original embellishment, the bleed into the clouds is, on this occasion, entirely intentional)


shows consolidated ultimate risk basis foreign claims by UK-owned banks on the
banking systems of selected euro-area countries.

and so deserved to be shot notwithstanding that they were not armed
you may feel that the core standards were a good example of form over content
tragic, catastrophic
no proper strategic approach / no understanding
at senior levels / should look like / led by
reputational management. / a failure to rhyme that could be described as dismal
/ are sidestepped and not dealt with appropriately There is no proper debate / alliteration
(b) Gross issuance of bonds, excluding issuance by corporates where parent is a financial entity.
shall see the determining impact of circumstantial alliances in a situation / where
borders are porous and where actors reason using the logic of ‘the enemy of
my enemy is my
friend’ /.

a note on the footnotes
and, on exit, the wound is said to be, is noted to be, everted which means in plain person
speak that the flesh that was once pointing inwards to the rest of that dark cavity
we might call the body is now facing the sky.
Indicators of risk appetite: a) State Street; b) Credit Suisse.
Ministers will be very sensitive to any public criticism that entry
standards have lowered / even if they understand / the arguments
the number of people dead and thought to be dying stands at over 80, most of them young
young
The Credit Suisse indicator is based on risk-adjusted returns across a / wide / spectrum of global
assets. The State Street indicator uses finance theory to model the / underlying / behaviour of
global investors. Word choice, enjambment,

in the main took place in the same circumstances, at the same times and in the same places as
those causing fatal injuries. Causing fatal injuries
and, on exit, the wound is said to be, is noted to be, everted which means in plain person speak that the flesh that
was once pointing inwards to the rest of that dark cavity we might call the body is now facing the sky.

(c) Gross issuance of syndicated loans, excluding cancelled or withdrawn facilities.
finacial entity / cancelled facility / withdrawn facilities
we call this what it is and it is what it is- read the fucking words
whether the same fate awaits them
Again, the context in which these terms are used influences / strangulates the meaning that
should be attached to them,
shows consolidated ultimate risk
basis foreign claims on all sectors of Greece, Ireland,

Italy, Portugal and Spain by selected euro-area banking systems.
strengthened the Provisional IRA, increased nationalist resentment
we submit, on the evidence is that they \ were not \ and they did not.
consolidated ultimate risk basis foreign
each with contradictory interests.
disastrous but only in the sense of the scratchy almost Hellerian demands of the O(o)ther
Shading is based on a score that reflects gross issuance (relative to nominal GDP) and spreads in primary
markets,
/expressed as a number of standard deviations from its
historical average, using available data from January
1998. Where spreads are not available, indicators are based
/ solely on issuance.
Latest data point is end-October 2011 (using most recent GDP data)

2 Responses to quiries pt 1 or Bad Things That Happen

  1. What a strange effect this combination of texts has. A ‘suspension’ (not a mixture or blend) of different elements in a liquid:
    particles of IT speak, pieces of economics, politics, etc that could come from the FT or from civil service or banking memoranda, footnotes from academic papers, statistical analyses and so on – and then in the middle of it all the voice of a desperate human being:
    “we call this what it is and it is what it is- read the fucking words”.
    Very curious. Lewis Carroll would enjoy.

    • John,

      Thank you again for your interest, the quoted texts are from inquiry reports into bad things that have happened juxtaposed with the latest Bank of England report on our financial stability. I’m not at all sure that this does what I want it to but there’s enough there to hopefully refine into something that works a bit better. My interventions into this appropriation are intended to carry something about the poem as bearing witness and as data. The line you quote is a voice of angry desperation culled from Philip Roth and Ezra Pound – two phrases that seem to follow me around.

      John

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