Saturday, September 17, 2011

17/09/2011: QNHS 2Q 2011 - public sector v private sector trends

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This is the second post on the data from QNHS for 2Q 2011. Table below summarises data from QNHS results, showing changes for specific secto...
Friday, September 16, 2011

16/09/2011: QNHS 2Q 2011 - things are getting frighteningly worse less rapidly

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This is the first of two posts on QNHS 2Q 2011 data released yesterday. Yesterday's QNHS results for 2Q 2011 confirmed the continuation ...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

15/09/2011: Some observations on NTMA & NAMA statements to the Oireachtas Committee

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I was going over the statements issued by NTMA and NAMA to the Oireachtas Committee last week and was struck by some rather interesting bits...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

14/09/2011: More soft slop from Irish stuff-brokers

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You gotta hand it to the Irish stuff-brokers community. They do routinely produce pearls of wisdom that we, the mere mortals can only aspire...
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14/09/2011: Ireland & Portugal are allowed to restructure some of their sovereign debts

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The EU Commission issued its proposals for altering terms and conditions of loans extended under the EFSM (and same is expected for EFSF). T...
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14/09/2011: Clueless from the world of finance

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I had to get this riddle solved, folks: I n the pic below, spot 1,000,023 clueless doorknobs Answer: Clueless Number 1: Erin Callan Clueless...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

13/09/2011: Latest research on Tax Havens & Safe Havens

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A recent CEPR research paper (CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8570, "TAX HAVENS OR SAFE HAVENS" by Patrice Pieretti, Jacques-François Th...

13/09/2011: German and French Banks - "extreme" leverage & elevated risks

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So what's the real trouble with German (and French) banks, folks? Errrm... they are kinda seriously bordering the "insolvency"...

13/09/2011: Forthcoming Conference on Economic Sustainability

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Forthcoming Feasta conference on, among other things, Alternative currencies / parallel currencies Site-Value Tax / Land-Value Tax Dealing w...
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13/09/2011: Global contagion from Greece

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In the torrent of newsflow from the euro area, we are forgetting about the wider geography of implications of the Greek default. Here are so...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

12/09/2011: CHF and the "soon-to-be-busted" peg

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Some weeks ago I have addressed one of the core reasons why the CHF/Euro peg, announced last week by the SNB will not hold for longer than 1...

12/09/2011: IMF admits failures in debt risk forecasting frameworks

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In the analysis published just minutes ago, the IMF ("Modernizing the Framework for Fiscal Policy and Public Debt Sustainability Analys...