Ireland vs Iceland macroeconomic comparatives in 15 simple charts that DofF wouldn't want you to see...
All data is either IMF direct-sourced or based on IMF data. Click on the charts to see more detailed comments imbedded in them.
Three charts on GDP comparatives:
Investment:
External trade and balance:
Unemployment and Employment:
Government Finances:
All data is either IMF direct-sourced or based on IMF data. Click on the charts to see more detailed comments imbedded in them.
Three charts on GDP comparatives:
Investment:
External trade and balance:
Unemployment and Employment:
Government Finances:
Lets not forget the birth rate in Ireland during the early to mid 1990s was much lower back then.
ReplyDeleteThe class of 2013 born around 1995~ is much smaller - therefore youth unemployment is more subdued then would otherwise be the case.
What I can't understand is "respected economists" who wish to scale up the banking system beyond national borders.
It has been a failure , they recognize it has been a failure and yet they want more of the same.
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2013/05/16/fixing-the-monetary-transmission-mechanism/#comment-425451