Wednesday, June 18, 2014

18/6/2014: IMF's Growth Forecasts for Ireland: Consistently More Bearish

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This the fifth and last post on IMF's assessment of Irish economy released today. In previous posts, I covered IMF's assessm...

18/6/2014: IMF on Irish Economic Growth: Sunshine is Still Awaiting the Future

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Per IMF: "Growth is expected to firm to about 2.5  percent from 2015, with a gradual rotation to domestic demand despite little suppo...

18/6/2014: IMF analysis of Irish households' balance sheet

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In previous two posts ( here and here ) I looked at the IMF's assessment of Irish banks. Now, lets take a quick look at the state of ...

18/6/2014: ECB Assessment of Irish Banks: IMF view

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In the previous post, I looked at the IMF report on Irish banks from the point of view of ongoing developments and balance sheet repairs (...

18/6/2014: IMF on Irish Banks: Still Sick to the Core, but of course, getting better...

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IMF released Staff Report on the First Post-Program Monitoring Discussion for Ireland . Some of the highlights over few posts. First up:...

18/6/2014: Ireland's Consumption & Income: Comparatives to EU

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Eurostat released comparatives for GDP per capita and Actual Individual Consumption across the EU28 for 2013. And the results are bleak - f...

18/6/2014: Russian Economy & Tech Sector

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I just posted few slides from my presentation on Russian economy and tech sector delivered as keynote at Enterprise Ireland Russian Tech F...

18/6/2014: Tech Start Ups in Russia: Some Facts, Some Hearsay

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An interesting article on Russian tech start-up scene:  http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/06/17/startups-russia-government/  Some of it is...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

17/6/2014: Gas, Oil, Russia, Ukraine & Europe: couple of links

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An interesting report from Bloomberg on Russia's demand for oil exploration and production JVs with Western companies: here . One c...

17/6/2014: Ireland's Regulatory 'Resource Curse'

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My WallStreet Journal op-ed on the European Commission's investigation into Apple tax affairs in Ireland is linked here .

17/6/2014: Some more troublesome facts about European Competitiveness rankings...

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Yesterday, I posted briefly on World Economic Forum Competitiveness Rankings for European Union. That post is available here . Since the...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

15/6/2014: WEF Misses on Another 'Metric'...

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WSJ reported on Finland taking the lead in the EU competitiveness gains: Link here: http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2014/06/10/finland-...