Showing posts with label Irish deficits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish deficits. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2014

15/5/2014: Universal Health Insurance: Fake Treatment for a Fake Disease

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from April 13, 2014. According to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, “revoluti...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

26/10/2013: Europe's Structural Deficits & Ireland's Headache...

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As you know, I prefer not to blog extensively on economics matters over the weekend. However, due to work time constraints this week, I ha...
Friday, October 4, 2013

4/10/2013: IMF 11th review of Ireland: Banks & Exchequer

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IMF released its 11th review of Irish economy under the Extended Arrangement for funding. I covered growth-related issues arising from the ...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

2/2/2012: Exchequer non-returns from January

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Exchequer returns pose no surprise - and none were expected, given this is just January - so no point of updating the detailed data sets. ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

23/11/2011: A longer term view of Ireland's structural deficits

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Someone recently requested the analysis of structural deficits for Ireland. So here's a quick note. All data is taken from IMF WEO data...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Economics 17/11/10: The road we traveled

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Amidst this crisis, it is worth taking a look back at the road that we have traveled on our way to the current predicament. It is fashionabl...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Economics 5/8/10: Good news - we might be 'one-off' broke?

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Good morning, folks. As a day starter, please take a note: We are bust! Yesterday’s Exchequer returns are a worthy reading on the theme of t...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Economics 4/8/10:Exchequer July receipts

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Note: Corrected version - hat tip to Seamus Coffey! As promised in the previous post (which focused on the Exchequer balance, here), the pre...
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Economics 4/8/10: Exchequer July results

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Exchequer figures for July 2010 are out. Here are trends and some details. Analysis of revenue (by line) will follow later tonight. Month on...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Economics 28/04/2010: 'Duin de rite ting'

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A brilliant chart from one of the readers (hat tip to Jonathan): May Toyota forgive me a pun, but is this a stuck (downward) accelerator pro...
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Economics 05.03.2010: Greeks are paying the price

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So you've heard by now that Greece 'escaped' the wrath of the market yesterday by placing €5bn worth of 10-year bonds. But don&#...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Economics 20/01/2010: Long term comparatives for Ireland

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Some time ago I promised to publish some long term macroeconomic comparatives for Ireland relative to other small open economies of Europe. ...
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