Tuesday, April 21, 2009

NTMA - a problem foretold

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For months now I have been saying that soon, very soon, there will come a moment when the markets are not going to take any more of the Iris...

Daily Economics 21/04/09: AIB and getting reality right

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AIB is getting reality, courtesy of the Government... You'd think it was a joke ( here ), but the Government that can't balance its ...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Daily Economics 20/04/09 - US debt problem

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For those impatient - there is an estimate of Ireland Inc debt at the bottom... that can be compared with the US debt... What is going on wi...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Daily Economics 18/04/09: Nationwide fall(bail)out

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Nationwide - systemic importance? In today's Irish Times ( here ), Mr Cowen makes a ludicrous assertion that Irish Nationwide - or as we...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Daily Economics 17/04/09: GGP & A dead cat bounce?

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An open letter in Irish Times: here Some of you have questioned my logic (sanity) in calling for nationalization of Irish banks. Here is a s...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Time to dump some bad risk? and ESB's rip-off 'investments'

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EXCLUSIVE: Is it time to let Nationwide sink? Here is an opportunity to show the financial world that we are serious about cleaning up the m...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Hush-Hush & Sweep it under the Rug: EU's latest 'transparency' move

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Last week EUObserver reported an interesting story ( here ) about the EU Commission efforts to keep transparency at bay. Per EUObserver repo...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A quintessence of Lenihan's economics

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Hat tip to Linda - here is a descriptor of the logic of 'shared pain' policies that ask us all - ordinary me and you, a lavishly pai...
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Ireland, ECB & Recent Commentary

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Reading Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Sunday Telegraph, 12/04/09) strikes me as an interesting case-study of stranger than life UK views of ECB ...
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Nationalize or else?..

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I just received a good comment to an earlier post ( here ) that warrants a separate attention. " Regarding NAMA, it seems to me that th...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Daily Economics 14/04/09

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University Quality & Earnings: this week's paper "University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK" ( IZA Discussion paper...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Daily Economics 10/04/09: Rappers want Euros

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Taxpayer champions? An excellent argument by David Quinn on the need for someone to step out of the shadows and become a taxpayers champion ...
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