Thursday, February 5, 2009

Debt Mountain 'Ireland Inc' III

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An anonymous reader asked in a comment to the previous post if I can provide any solutions to the problems we currently face in Irish econom...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Debt Mountain 'Ireland Inc' II

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For those who missed yesterday's Irish Times article by Brian Lucey and myself - here is the link . Of course, the followers of this blo...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Falling from disgrace

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Ah, another day, another screw up in the Biffoland – the veritable emporium of economic policy oddities and quaint Boggerista collectibles. ...
Monday, February 2, 2009

S&P's visit: Pints!

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S&P gang is in town (hat tip to P.O.) making rounds, sniffing out the need to slam the book on Irish bonds AAA rating. Better late than ...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009

DofF Forecast: Update I

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According to today's reports, the y-o-y tax take in January is down 15% (hat tip to B.). My personal projection, given the dynamics of 2...
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European v American Model: Labour and Leisure

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Recently, I was invited to adjudicate TCD's Hist annual debate with Yale. It was, as such nights always are, a really great exchange of ...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

DofF Forecast: does it hold any water?

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I have a serious question to ask of our Government: Do budgetary projections by the DofF in (e.g those contained in their January 2009 Adden...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Debt Mountain 'Ireland Inc'

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For those of you who missed my yesterday's article in the Indo on this topic, see here . The article was filed before we had latest figu...

Mushroom Cloud Redux II

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Per excellent comment (see here and scroll to comment) to an earlier post on this matter, here are comparatives for Irish Banks index vis-a...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mushroom Cloud Redux

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Per my earlier posts , here are the latest comparisons between our Financials and the broader European markets. A new dip is courtesy of our...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Government's Plan for Ireland: Exclusive... Part 5

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Per earlier posts, italics are my 5. Work together to implement a reform agenda (i) to implement an agenda for enterprise and competitivenes...
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Government's Plan for Ireland: Exclusive... Part 4

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Continued, as earlier italics are my: Part 3: An Equitable Approach The Government and Social Partners believe that support for these adjust...