Showing posts with label Irish economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish economy. 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...
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, October 12, 2020

12/10/20: Ireland PMIs and Economic Activity Dynamics for September

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  September data on Irish Purchasing Managers Indices is now complete (with Construction sector reporting last), and the signals coming from...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

9/8/20: Ireland PMIs and Economic Activity Dynamics for August

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Ireland's PMIs are signalling a cautious recovery in the growth dynamics across three sectors, with growth still underperforming histori...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

12/8/20: Post-Covid Economy: The Winds of Change

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  Yesterday, I gave a talk about the state of the global, European and Irish economies at the Omnipro event in Dublin. Here are my slides f...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

1/8/20: Ireland: Agricultural Subsidies and Production

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CSO published final data for 2019 'value added' in agriculture. As always, a fun read from the perspective of which constituency in ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Friday, February 7, 2020

7/2/20: Someone, page Paul Krugman on this one: Irish Gross Value Added Data 3Q 2020

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Remember that somewhat offensive, but also somewhat apt description of the Irish 2015 growth figures that Paul Krugman came up with? Well,...

7/2/20: Mapping Real Economic Debt 2019

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A neat summary map of the real economic debt as a share of the national economies, via IIF, with my addition of Ireland's benchmark re...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

28/1/20: What Doesn't Work in NYC Probably Won't Work in Dublin

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As Irish politicians talk rent controls, here is some interesting evidence from NYC's recently passed rent control rules (since June 2...
Monday, January 27, 2020

27/1/20: The Value of History and the Shifting Winds of Public Policy

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My latest contribution to the Manning Financial for January 2020 is out:  https://issuu.com/publicationire/docs/mf_january_2020?fr=sZTk2MD...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

8/1/20: Creative destruction and consumer credit

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My new article for @TheCurrency_, titled "Creative destruction and consumer credit: A Fintech song for the Irish banks" is out. ...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

15/12/19: Under the Hood of Irish National Accounts: 3Q 2019 Data

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CSO have released the latest (3Q 2019) data for the National Accounts. The headlines are covered in the release here:  https://www.cso.ie/...
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...

12/12/19: Ireland's Jobs Creation Track Record: Raising Some Questions

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Doing some research on the state of precariat in modern labor markets, I came across some interesting data from the 'poster country...