Monday, April 12, 2010

Economics 12/04/2010: Nama's economic distorionism

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An interesting quote from the just-published paper (Claessens, Stijn, Dell’Ariccia, Giovanni, Igan, Deniz and Laeven, Luc A., Cross-Country ...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Economics 10/04/2010: HSE fails children and families

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Updated below On several occasions last year I wrote about HSE failures to carry out its job and provide requisite follow up support for ado...
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Economcis 10/04/2010: Ireland's Competitiveness - not improving

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Often overlooked today (in the usual media focus on credit flows), Ireland's Harmonized Competitiveness Indicators, published by the Cen...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Economics 09/04/2010: Bank of Ireland: strategic insanity

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And so, as I predicted in the press some months ago and confirmed (also in the press) following the AIB rate hike and previous BofI hike in ...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Economics 08/04/2010: AIB first Nama loans

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Earlier this week, Nama had completed the first transfer of loans from AIB. Per official report, Nama bought loans with a nominal value of €...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Economics 07/04/2010: Another lesson from Greece

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The lessons for Ireland from Greece are just keep on coming. In the weeks when the Irish Government is engaging in talks with the Unions c...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Economics 6/04/2010: QNHS - the figures of despair

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Time to take a closer look at the latest data from Quarterly National Household Survey - released a week ago. The focus below is on less rec...
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Economics 06/04/2010: Return of the markets

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Another 'Must Read' from WSJ - Gary Becker on Obamanomics, health care reform and why Americans will opt once again for Smaller Gove...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Economics 1/04/2010: Travel time? Not a chance.

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Hat tip to the Machholtz's blog - the link to my participation on Wide Angle (Newstalk 106FM) here . Discussing Nama... The thing is - w...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Economics 31/03/2010: Nama funding scheme - Maddoffian Risk Pyramid

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The saga of Nama continues, folks. Ah, and no, I do not mean the dumping of €8.3 billion to the Anglo which miraculously declared losses of ...
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Economics 31/03/2010: An expensive joke called Nama

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I must confess, the last thing I expected in yesterday's quadruple whammy of one Ministerial speech, one Nama document release, a Centra...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Economics 29/03/2010: PS productivity deal will cost us all

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Per latest reports on the talks with the Unions, it now appears that the Government will yield on the Budget 2010 pay cuts and accept a prem...
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