These Were The Days

The Blog That Never Sleeps has been using the festering season as an opportunity to shift office. I am making room for my legal counsel to move in - he is taking over the office and the office has moved into the salubrious surrounds of the art-deco loungeroom here at Sleepless Central. It also moves me further from the Balcony Of Death and the ever present threat of death by pigeon. In the process I am going through piles of files assembled over the last fifteen years or so; they are very revealing about certain people that have shot to prominence in one way or another in recent times. Take the following quote:

The financial markets are populated by a lot of immature, younger-type people who play with their computers and drive home in their Porsches, and who have no understanding of the of the human or economic discussions of unemployment

Who is this rabid Trotskyite? None other than Wayne Swan, now Federal Treasurer, but said in 1994 when he was chairman of the ALP Caucus Economics Committee.