The short answer is “I don’t know” but this is precisely what this modern day inverse of Robin Hood is about to do – take €5.4bn from our National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) to buy shares in Allied Irish Banks (AIB and for our international friends again has nothing whatsoever to do with Anglo Irish [...]
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Why is Brian Lenihan about to take €1.8bn from pensioners to bail out AIB shareholders and junior bondholders?
Posted in Irish economy, NAMA on October 31, 2010 | 18 Comments »
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