Friday, February 17, 2012

17/2/2012: Harmful Competition? Not so fast...

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In recent years there has been much said about the dangers of competition in the banking sector across the EU and specifically in Ireland. ...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

16/2/2012: Some recent press links

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Several links for housekeeping: My article in the Globe & Mail Economy Lab on Greek deal: Greece: the Jig is Just About Up And arti...

16/02/2012: Spanish & French bonds auction

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Spain's bond auction results: €2.268bn - 3 year bond, 4% coupon, yield 3.332 against previous auction 2.861% with cover of x 2.2 agai...
Monday, February 13, 2012

13/2/2012: Now - a Greece comparative that doesn't work in our favor

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Sometimes those 'We are not Greece' comparatives work our way, sometimes (fortunately enough rarely) they take us in the opposite d...
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13/2/2012: Sunday Times 12/2/2012: The perils of long-term unemployment

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This is an unedited version of my article in Sunday Times, 12 February, 2012. The conflicting nature of the most...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

12/2/2012: A road map to a cooperative solution for Greek crisis

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Papandreou: 'this is a battle between the markets and democracy'. Greek political discourse - mirroring the received wisdom of th...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

11/02/2012: Labor Productivity - some cross-EU comparatives

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There has been much of talk about Euro area (and EU27) competitiveness trends recently in the media. Some of the commentary I've seen r...

11/02/2012: Globe & Mail 9/02/2012

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Here's the link to my latest article for Economy Lab with Canada's Globe & Mail.
Friday, February 10, 2012

10/2/2012: Two charts for a Friday night pint

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Two charts for some Friday night thinking instead of (or even while) drinking. One courtesy of Lorcan Roche Kelly flagging it on twitter (l...

10/2/2012: Few thoughts on the global policy crisis

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What makes me really concerned nowdays is not the ongoing crisis, but the logical and numeric impossibility of the mounting policy "so...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

9/2/2012: Interesting chart on Euro area deposits

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Here's an interesting chart from Credit Suisse via zerohedge: Now, it's not the blue line that worries me and the others (EAP5...

9/2/2012: What can ECB do?

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In relation to the recent statements from Minister Noonan and Taoiseach Kenny on their expectations that ECB involvement in Greece should b...