Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2019

29/6/19: Why Moody’s is wrong to keep Cyprus on junk status

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Euromoney on Cypriot economy: "Why Moody’s is wrong to keep Cyprus on junk status"  https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1g125jl1w...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

20/9/15: Euromoney: "Cyprus almost as safe as Portugal"

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"The Cyprus risk score has steadily improved this year in Euromoney’s crowdsourcing survey, rebounding in Q2, and is seemingly on cou...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

1/4/15: H-W Sinn "Europe’s Easy-Money Endgame"

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A very interesting op-ed by Professor Hans-Werner Sinn of German Ifo Institute for Project Syndicate:  http://www.project-syndicate.org/co...
Friday, February 6, 2015

6/2/15: Cyprus AWOL on Troika 'Reforms'

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Yes, at some point, Troika won't be able to handle all the bad news flying its way... for now, however, a new alarm at the barbwire fe...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

27/12/2014: Geography of the Euro Area Debt Flows

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The debate about who was rescued in the euro area 'peripheral' economies banking crisis will be raging on for years to come. One i...
Friday, December 26, 2014

26/12/2014: Advanced Economies: Public Debt Explosion 2008-2014

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Some interesting insight into the legacy of the Great Recession that we are carrying over into 2015. From the start of 2008 through 2014: ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

16/8/2014: Three Charts of Euro Area's Abysmal Growth Performance

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Few charts to summarise the continued problems with growth in euro area and the 'peripheral' states: First, consider changes in ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

10/8/2014: Can EU Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem?

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Another paper relating to debt corrections/deflations, this time covering the euro area case. " A Surplus of Ambition: Can Europe Rel...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

19/7/2014: Global Innovation Index 2014: Ireland vs 'Periphery'

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In the previous post I gave detailed breakdown of Ireland's performance in Global Innovation Index 2014. I used small open economies ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

20/6/2014: Household Disposable Income: Great Recession 2007-2011

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Excellently spotted by @stephenkinsella - a chart from The Economist blog mapping changes in disposable incomes across a set of advanced e...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

23/4/2014: Some scary reading from the Eurostat...

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Eurostat published full comparatives on key fiscal performance indicators across the EU and euro area for 2013. Here are three summary tab...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

6/4/2014: IMF forecasts of unemployment; 'peripheral' countries

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Note to my previously posted Sunday Times column from March 23, 2014 and to my Sunday Times column from March 30, 2014 (still to be poste...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

18/2/2014: Wither Irish manufacturing? Not so fast! Sunday Times, February 2

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times  column from February 2, 2014 The news flow was mixed in recent days when it comes to cov...
Monday, December 16, 2013

16/12/2013: Troika Consultancies... via EUObserver

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A very interesting article on the EUObserver.com today (disclosure: I contributed a comment) on the issue of professional advisory service...
Friday, August 9, 2013

9/8/2013: Political Waffle Passing for Learning?

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Mr Schulz - the President of the European Parliament - has penned an op-ed that is available here:  http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/arti...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

18/7/2013: One table, four entries, wealth of irony...

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One cannot contain a sense of deep irony when looking at today's mid-day CDS markets snapshot from CMA: In one table we have: Eur...
Monday, June 17, 2013

17/6/2013: Deutsche, AIB and Cypriot Banks: 3 links

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Back in 2011, I wrote about the extreme leverage ratios in some of Europe's top banks:  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2011/09/130920...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

16/6/2013: Euromoney Country Risk Scores Update

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Some updates from Euromoney Country Risk (ECR) reports. First a summary of latest credit risk assessment scores moves: And on foot of ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

15/5/2013: Straight from 1984... The Department of Stabilisation...

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Fir the fun of reading between the lines, follow my italics: "IMF Executive Board Approves €1 Billion Arrangement Under Extended Fu...
Monday, May 13, 2013

13/5/2013: Cyprus CDS

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It doesn't look like anyone (save for Olli Rehn) is betting on Cyprus' 'vast gas wealth' to be anywhere near its current ac...