Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Economics 3/11/10: Live Register update

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As promised, here are the updated charts for the Live Register: Unemployment (implied rate) above clearly shows the relative size of adjustm...
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Economics 3/11/10: Live register

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Being away from Dublin this week means I am missing both the Exchequer returns and Live Register data. I will, of course, update the charts ...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Economics 2/11/10: Spot the odd ones out

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As of yesterday's close, implied probability of default based on CDS spreads and spreads themselves are: Source: CMA.
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Economics 31/10/10: Mortgages, relief and stimulus

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David McWilliams' idea of deferring mortgage repayments for 2 years is continuing to generate some discussions in the 'new' medi...
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Economics 31/10/10: €15bn in cuts will not be enough

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This is an unedited version of my article in yesterday's Irish Examiner. The last three days have seen dramatic volatility and extreme u...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Economics 30/10/10: Euro area growth forecast

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Updating leading indicator data for Euro area growth from Eurocoin: Having posted bang on forecast for September (forecast was 0.34 and this...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Economics 29/10/10: Retail sales

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After two weeks of absolutely excessive work loads, including a week of marathon teaching (gotta love that feeling of total exhaustion after...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Economics 14/10/10: Innovation Union from European Union

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Just in case you thought our own Government's naive and overly optimistic 'knowledge economy' papers were original in their lack...
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Economics 14/10/10: Rip-off Ireland is roaring its ugly head

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CPI for September is out... kinda out... it was sent out yesterday without an embargo, by mistake, and now it was re-released again. So the ...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Economics 9/10/10: Path to reforms

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This is an unedited version of my column in October 2010 Village magazine: The events of the recent months have clearly shown that the c...
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Economics 9/10/10: Facing the Budget

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This is an unedited version of my column in Business & Finance magazine for October 201 0. James Carville famously remarked that: &q...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Economics 7/10/10: Irish Government Spending habit

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Our leadership - from the Minister for Finance to the heads of the Central Bank and various quangoes, to the affiliated leading business fig...
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