Saturday, September 15, 2012

15/9/2012: A handy IMF map for Budget 2013?

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The elephant in the room (at 9% of GDP or 11% of GNP, with pensions - at 10.6% GDP or 13 of GNP, that's right more than one euro in e...

15/9/2012: Russia to revamp SWF structure

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According to the report in the Euromoney ( http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3087655/Category/4298/ChannelPage/0/Russias-new-SWF-seeks-bo...

15/9/2012: Derivatives v Banks Lending and Economic Growth

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A recent by Becchetti, Leonardo and Ciampoli, Nicola, What is New in the Finance-Growth Nexus: OTC Derivatives, Bank Assets and Growth (...
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15/9/2012: In life things are a bit like in art

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The best illustration of the current Presidential Campaign in the US is this painting by Mark Tansey: Depicting Sherlock Holmes and Pr...

15/9/2012: Brazil soaks bank bondholders

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H/T to Ed - here's Brazil shutting down one medium-sized insolvent bank ( link ) and triggering the largets corporate bonds default in...

15/9/2012: Irish Services Activity July 2012

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Recent release of the monthly Services sectors activity index for Ireland highlights the stabilizing nature of the current activity in the...
Friday, September 14, 2012

14/9/2012: 36 years of state-incentivised inflation?

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Some historical (up to August 2012) charts on Irish CPI. Orange bars mark state-dominated categories of goods and services. Interpret thes...

14/9/2012: Irish CPI for August - detailed charts

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With some delay, here's the analysis of latest Consumer Price Inflation data for Ireland for August 2012: Summary table of monthly a...

14/9/2012: Another Indo 'Property Boom Cometh' Missive

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An interesting article in the Indo on house prices vs debate about the property tax or site value tax - link here . A key phrase that ca...

14/9/2012: Russian CB raises rates

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Bank of Russia hiked key refinancing rate to 8.25 by 25bps on the foot of rising inflation pressures, with current rate back at the levels...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

13/9/2012: Buying more time for the Euro

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My recent analysis of the ECB announcement of the OMT in The Globe & Mail
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

11/9/2012: Inherent limit to artificial intelligence?

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In a rather common departure from economics (as defined by rational expectations subset of the discipline) on this blog - here's a fa...