Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Monday, May 10, 2021

10/5/21: Ireland PMIs for April: Rapid Growth and Inflation Signals

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Ireland's PMIs have accelerated across all two key sectors of Services and Manufacturing in April, while Construction Sector continued t...
Friday, April 23, 2021

23/4/21: There are no 'social' winners amidst this pandemic

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  No one is left unscarred by the #covid19 pandemic when it comes to public approval trends for the major social stakeholders in Ireland:  S...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

7/4/21: Ireland PMIs for March: Growth and Inflation Pressures

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  Ireland PMIs for 1Q 2021 are out this week, so let's take a closer look at monthly activity data.  March services PMI came in at a sur...
Monday, April 5, 2021

5/4/21: The Entrepreneurship Boom: Forced, Voluntary and Funded

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  My recent article for The Currency  covering the ongoing global developments in entrepreneurship:  The US is experiencing an entrepreneurs...
Monday, August 3, 2020

3/8/20: Ireland's Real Surreal Economy

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In recent months, I have mentioned on a number of occasions the problem of Ireland's growing GDP-GNI* gap. The gap is a partial (key, pa...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

18/7/20: Europe, the Land of the Unliving Leadership

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If the U.S. of A. is the land of the brain-dead leadership, Europe (the EU) is the land of the unliving ones. The difference is the ratio ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

6/7/2020: Irish Services Sector Activity Index: May 2020

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COVID19 impact on services sectors activity in Ireland, data through May 2020: Huge adverse impact on the economy. Note precautionary...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

24/6/20: COVID19 Social Impact: June 2020 Ireland

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Interesting insights from the CSO on some impacts of COVID19 pandemic on general population:  https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublication...
Monday, June 1, 2020

1/6/20: COVID19 and European Banking

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McKinsey research note on European banks' potential losses due to COVID19 is quite on the money: With more than 1/3rd of European...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

25/5/20: Irish Employment: COVID19 Effects

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Irish data on employment and labour force reported by CSO now comes in two streams: one is COVID pandemic-ignoring, and one accounting for...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

6/5/20: Trump, Irish Pharma and Amazeballs Economics Stats

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The Mondo Bizarro of Irish Economics: Industrial production activity: And yet,  Irish Manufacturing PMI plummeted to 36.0 in ...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

2/4/20: COVID19 in three charts

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#COVID2019 economy in three pics: U.S. unemployment claims, week 2 of filings: Irish unemployment claims, first month of filings: ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

25/3/20: More than €3bn: The Need for Stimulus in Ireland

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"€3bn a month or more – the cost of offsetting the Covid-19 shock" my article for @thecurrency on the size of the fiscal/monetar...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

19/2/20: Facebook becomes another Ireland Inc's reforms test case

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First the 'anti-American'  EU Commission's moved against a wonderful U.S. company washing tens of billions of tax free money t...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

16/1/20: Irish GE2020: Kommersant

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My musings on the Irish election 2020 via Russia's Kommersant.ru:  https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4220157 .
Friday, December 13, 2019

13/12/19: World Bank and WEF reports highlight relatively poor competitiveness rankings for Ireland

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The latest World Bank "Doing Business" report rankings and the WEF's "Global Competitiveness Report" rankings show...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

11/12/19: Private Sector Leads Electrification of Transport in Ireland

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Ireland's uptake of electric vehicles has risen dramatically in 2019 (to-date, data through November), according to the data release f...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

16/10/19: Recalling the Celtic Tiger

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Recalling the Celtic Tiger , edited by Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien is coming out this week from the series of Reimagining ...

16/10/19: Ireland and the Global Trade Wars

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My first column for The Currency  covering "Ireland, global trade wars and economic growth: Why Ireland’s economic future needs to be...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

20/8/19: Public Spending in the Euro Area: Post-Crisis Austerity?

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Given the never-ending repetition of the 'austerity narrative' in European economic analysis, it is virtually impossible to conclu...