Showing posts with label Irish Government debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish Government debt. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

30/12/2014: Who Owns Government Debt?

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An interesting chart via DB, mapping sovereign debt holdings across the advanced economies: As the chart clearly shows, Irish Governme...
Friday, September 26, 2014

26/9/2014: 'Cartoon Economics'? You bet...

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Priceless is the best way to describe financial instrumentation antics of Irish Government. The IMF loan early 'repayment' is re...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

4/9/2014: Repaying Ahead of Schedule: Ireland & IMF Loans

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Last week Portugal's Expresso published a big article on Irish plans to repay earlier the IMF loans. The link is here:  http://fesete....
Thursday, September 26, 2013

26/9/2013: Even with Hopium injections, we are not that far from Greece...

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Irish Fiscal Council paper "The Government’s Balance Sheet after the Crisis: A Comprehensive Perspective" authored by Sebastian B...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

22/7/2013: That Growing Debt Pile...

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In the week when Irish debt/GDP pushes above 125% that some of the luminary 'green jerseyists' said it will never do, let's say...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

18/7/2013: Ireland's Government Deficit & Debt Up in Q1 2013

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Good news: CSO is doing its job well covering Irish Government Financial stats. Bad news: the stats aren't exactly encouraging: I ...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

23/4/2014: Irish Government Net Debt

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Not that I am looking for it, but the data just jumps out to shout "All this malarky about Ireland's Government debt sustainabilit...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

5/12/2012: Pre-Budget 2013 tunes

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Ireland's pre-Budget 2013 arithmetic: Budget 2013 Cuts & Tax hikes = €3.5 billion IL&P (bust state-owned 'bank') b...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

10/10/2012: Irish Real Economic Debt - Busting Records

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Last night I came across the latest data from the IMF on the overall levels of indebtedness and leverage across a number of countries. Her...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

17/7/2012: Fiscal Monitor Update - another chart

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Here’s an interesting chart from the Fiscal Monitor update released by the IMF yesterday that is worth some attention on...
Monday, July 16, 2012

16/7/2012: IMF Fiscal Monitor Update - Ireland

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IMF just published its Fiscal Monitor Update for July 2012 with some interesting data. I will focus here on forecast changes and updates to...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

1/4/2012: Flightless dodo - the Hunt of Chief Noonan

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I am not usually prone on updating my past posts, but the Promissory Notes 'deal' announced last week by Minister Noonan just keeps...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

29/3/2012: Promissory Note 'deal' 2012

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Trying to sort out the convoluted 'deal' announced by the Minister today and juggle two kids, plus struggle against the computer o...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

20/1/2012: Non-News from a Road to the Second Bailout

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This story in the Irish Times yesterday clearly requires a comment. So here it goes. Here's the best time-line and explanation as t...
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20/1/2012: Deputy Peter Mathews v Minister Noonan

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Here are some extracts from an excellent contribution by Peter Mathews TD (FG) from yesterday's topical debates in the Dail (full recor...
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