“The idea that ‘drill, baby, drill’ can cure our jobs deficit is basically a joke.”
“We call on banks to continue stimulating growth in their deposits, even at the expense of slowing growth in profits.”
“The Turkish lira now has a symbol, just like the US dollar, the euro and the yen.”
“They [the Bahrainis] will pay if there is no race. The money is in the bank already. So we’re not going because we’re going to get paid. That has nothing to do with it.”
“We used to be the people of the Book. Now we became the people of the Facebook. Much better.”
“The risks of turning away from Greece now are incalculable. No one can assess what consequences would arise for the German economy, on Italy, Spain, the Eurozone as a whole and finally for the whole world.”
“I hope US companies would come. Even the US oil companies haven’t started coming back.”
“Britain seeks to protect Lebanon’s lucrative banking sector from sanctions against Syria, and we will do our utmost to safeguard its credibility.”
“Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as ‘muppets’.”
“We do realize that a 25 percent increase on the third salary bracket would not be realistic, but this is our legal right.”
Assad Khoury, head of Lebanon’s Association of Bank Employees
“We received a letter from Exxon on March 5 saying they are freezing the contract with the Kurds.”
