Monday, March 23, 2009

Private Sector credit supply is being damaged by this Government

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A recent working paper from the European Central Bank, titled "Modelling Loans to Non-Financial Corporations in the Euro Area" (EC...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Boardrooms in denial: McKinsey study & Ireland Inc

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McKinsey has done some homework and published impressive findings on the issue of corporate leadership in the current downturn. You can get ...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Daily Economics Update 21/03/2009

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Weekly analysis: Irish shares The volume of shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange has topped the 50-day moving average on six of the ...

Rates of decline, degrees of (construction sector) misery

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Earlier today (here), I gave some figures from the CSO data release on planning permissions. Here is what I wrote: " Also per CSO relea...

Daily Economics Update 20/03/2009 - II

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Ireland Retail Sales volume decreases by 20.4% in January 2009 relative to a year ago, per CSO report out today. In monthly terms, index fe...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Daily economics update 19/03/2009

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Excellent piece on Irish Nationwide excesses here - I would certainly encourage everyone to read through it. On the news front - Ireland: P...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Trichet's latest interview - much hype, little substance

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Here is an exclusive interview, Jean-Claude Trichet (ECB) gave to Foundation Robert Schuman. And here is my quick and dirty walk through it...

Irish credit III

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NTMA is brewing up a plan again ( here ). This time around, reportedly for a 5-year bond to be launched next Tuesday at 4.5%. Which would b...

A wish list: asking for the right policies

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For those of you who missed it, here is my take on Mr Cowen's White House visit - an unedited version of the article in yesterday's...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Housekeeping and S&P

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You can see a quick snippet of my contribution to the Bloomberg report on Ireland today here . But for now, the main piece of news of the w...

Eurozone: The High Cost of [Corporatist] Complacency

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An interesting article from the Economists’ Voice (Éloi Laurent "Eurozone: The High Cost of Complacency", January 2009) argues t...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

What if interest rates rise?

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Just to stake some forward looking ground - here is a quick thought. While we are preoccupied with the current crises, one has to wonder wha...