Friday, May 17, 2013

17/5/2013: Good News Feel Chart That Is Real

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Nice chart via Markit: Lat time I checked, (yesterday) Irish CDS were trading at implied cumulative probability of default of 12.25% -...

17/5/2013: Welcome to Surreal Irish National Accounts

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A significant, but only because it is now 'official', confirmation that Ireland's GDP and GNP figures are vastly over-exaggera...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

16/5/2013: There are jobs & then there are...

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Off the start - there is nothing wrong with debt collection as business when it is properly delivered and regulated / supervised. And there...

16/5/2013: On That Impossible Monetary Policy Dilemma

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At last, the IMF has published something beefy on the extraordinary (or so-called 'unconventional') monetary policy instruments un...
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16/5/2013: Euro Area 'Austerity' in One Chart

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Frankly, folks, there is nothing like making a factual argument across emotive subject lines... I have put up two posts on Euro area 'a...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

15/5/2013: Italy v Spain in Big 4's Sickest Economy contest

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More unpleasant stuff from the Euro zone. Headlines in the morning today: Italian banks suffer the worst credit crunch in their history ...
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15/5/2013: Straight from 1984... The Department of Stabilisation...

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Fir the fun of reading between the lines, follow my italics: "IMF Executive Board Approves €1 Billion Arrangement Under Extended Fu...

15/5/2013: What IMF assessment of Malta has to do with Ireland?

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Here's an interesting excerpt from the IMF Article IV conclusions for Malta, released today (italics are mine): "In the longer t...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

14/5/2013: Ending German Austerity... and then what?

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Everyone is running around with the latest catch-phrase designed to phase out thought: Germany must end austerity. So, folks, what will hap...

14/5/2013: Corporate Tax Haven Ireland Weekly Links Page

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Corporate Tax Haven Ireland in the news... again: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-13/europe-eases-corporate-tax-dodge-as-worker-burd...
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14/5/2013: Sunday Times May 12, 2013: UK, Europe and Ireland

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This is an unedited version of my article for Sunday Times , May 12, 2013. Loosely based on the famous quip by the US ex-Secretary ...
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14/5/2013: The Sick Man of Europe is... Europe

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An excellent set of stats on the decline of public legitimacy of the EU between 2012 and 2013 from Pew Research:  http://www.pewglobal.org...