Sunday, August 16, 2009

Economics 16/08/2009: Alan Ahearne on NAMA - not an ounce of sense

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Alan Ahearne has decided to produce a definitive defense of NAMA in today's Sunday Business Post ( here ). And I would have to respond. ...
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Economics 16/08/2009: A tax too far?

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Here is a nice one from the Sunday Papers. Sunday Times "In Gear" supplement is featuring tow different cars: a Devon Motorworks ...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Economics 15/08/2009: Migrants in Ireland - a recent study

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Here is a quote from the recently published paper on immigration to Ireland, Alan Barrett (ESRI) "EU Enlargement and Ireland’s Labour M...
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Economics 15/08/2009: US rally is unlikely to last - implications for Ireland

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Some are making lots of hay out of the idea that Germany, France, the US and the UK economies are improving and that this will have a positi...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Economics 14/08/2009: Irish welfare rates - Part II

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I grew tired of, honestly, of the bull surrounding the OECD stats on social welfare. So I crunched through the data, available from their da...

Economics 14/08/2009: Turning point, but not for you and me...

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NCB's Brian Devine issued a new update on Irish economy. Clean and tight as ever, and a worthy read. It makes the case for upgrading Iri...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Economics 14/08/2009: Irish welfare rates and the tragedy of poverty

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On last night's RTE Prime Time I referred to the OECD 2007 report that shows Ireland having the second highest welfare rates in EU27 (a...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Economics 12/08/2009: An afront to our democracy

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So Mr Carroll's case has been now refused the examinership by the Supreme Court. Welcome news - at least there is a remnant of sanity le...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Economics 10/08/2009: Industrial production blues and fun-NAMA

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Brian Lucey has an open petition on NAMA on his site ( here ): http://brianmlucey.googlepages.com/namapetitionandoireachtasemails which is, ...
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Economics 09/08/2009: Banks

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A new post - the one promised a while ago - on Euro Area Banking Survey by ECB (July 2009 results), part 1 is now available on my Long Rune ...
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Economics 09/08/2009: Calling a turning point?

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Forward looking update: I am working on detailed analysis of the latest ECB data on banks activity survey across the Eurozone, plus Ireland...
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