Showing posts with label Irish fiscal crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish fiscal crisis. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

8/10/2013: Jokers Burning Money: Public Sector Reforms - Village, October 2013

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My article for the Village Magazine on pre-Budget 2014 analysis of health spending in Ireland: http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/201...
Monday, October 7, 2013

7/10/2013: Taking an Easy Road Out of Budget 2014? Sunday Times, September 22

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from September 22, 2013. The upcoming Budget 2014 will be one of the toughest sin...
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, September 26, 2013

26/9/2013: Framing Budget 2014: Village Magazine September 2013

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This is an unedited version of my column in the Village Magazine, August-September 2013 With early Budget looming on the horizon, the ci...
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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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Friday, July 19, 2013

19/7/2013: Ireland: Six Points on Government Spending Stats for Q1 2013

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Four key trends in Irish Government expenditure through Q1 2013 : Chart above shows three aspects of Irish Government spending: Ove...
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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Sunday, March 31, 2013

31/3/2013: Unique Ireland? Why not... per IMF working paper...

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Here's an interesting case of Ireland's uniqueness: Eyraud, Luc and Moreno Badia, Marialuz, "Too Small to Fail? Subnational...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

19/1/2013: Ireland's cost of funding

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An interesting chart in today's IMF review of Greece: Now, that's right - prior to Bailout 2.0, Greece led the euro area in te...
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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...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

4/12/2012: Irish Exchequer Returns Jan-Nov 2012

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So 2013 Budget will be expected to deliver 'cuts' and 'revenue measures' to bring fiscal stance €3.5 billion closer (or so...
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

4/10/2012: Investor's Daily: We've been telling you porkies

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In the previous post I tried to make some sense out of the headline numbers from the Exchequer returns through Q3 2012. This time around...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

2/10/2012: Irish Exchequer Receipts Q3 2012

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Headline figure on Tax Receipts is €26,118mln collected in Q3 2012 against profile of €25,733mln a surplus over the profile of 1...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

15/9/2012: A handy IMF map for Budget 2013?

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The elephant in the room (at 9% of GDP or 11% of GNP, with pensions - at 10.6% GDP or 13 of GNP, that's right more than one euro in e...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

5/9/2012: The balance of imbalance: Irish Exchequer deficit in January-August 2012

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In the previous two posts I examined the Exchequer receipts and net voted expenditure for January-August 2012. Now, on to the overall ba...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

4/9/2012: Six Key Facts About Irish Government Spending: August 2012

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In the previous post I looked at the receipts side of the Exchequer returns for January-August 2012. Now, let's take a quick tour t...

4/9/2012: The Fog of Exchequer Receipts: August 2012

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The Exchequer receipts and expenditure figures are out for August and the circus of media rehashing that way and this way the Department o...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012

2/8/2012: Irish Exchequer Fog: Reality Isolated?

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Let’s take a look at the Exchequer numbers for January-July period out today. Tax revenue shows an increase from €18,633 mln in Janu...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

29/02/2012: New Old Mini Budget?

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Having predicted in my comments on Budget 2012 that we are likely to see an Emergency Budget 2012 closer to half-year results, I thought I ...