Tuesday, September 23, 2014

23/9/2014: Nationalist Revival and the end of the Age of Great Moderation

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Recently, I was asked to comment on the issue of emerging nationalism in the European and Eastern European (especially Russian and Ukraini...

23/9/2014: Irish factory Gate Prices: Deflation and Inflation in August

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CSO's latest data on monthly factory gate prices shows that producer prices rose 0.3% in August 2014 m/m and fell 2.0% y/y, moderating...
Monday, September 22, 2014

22/9/2014: Where TLTROs dare to go?..

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Last week I wrote about the disappointing nature of the first round of TLTROs by the ECB ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2014/09/189201...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

21/9/2014: Irish Corporate Tax Policy: Some Leadership Needed

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Earlier this week I gave a comment to TheCorner.eu on the issue of Irish corporate tax reforms and challenges: http://www.thecor...

21/9/2014: Ireland's Performance: Some Gains, Some Pains

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Last week I gave a quick interview to Swiss Dukascopy TV. The link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Qi9r-7PSE Here are some o...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

18/9/2014: Irish GDP & GNP Q2 2014: Headline Numbers

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In the previous post ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2014/09/1892014-irish-gdp-q2-2014-sectoral.html ) I covered sectoral decomposition...
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18/9/2014: Irish GDP Q2 2014: Sectoral Decomposition

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Quarterly National Accounts for Q2 2014 for Ireland have been published by the CSO and the numbers are so-far encouraging. I will be blogg...

18/9/2014: Quite a disappointing TLTRO round 1

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So ECB's first tranche of TLTROs allotted at EUR82.6 billion - which is disappointing to say the least. Announcement is here:  http://w...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

17/9/2014: Belarus v Ukraine: Income per Capita

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Someone just asked me a question as to what is the relative income in Belarus vs Ukraine. Here is the data on GDP per capita basis (PPP-ad...

17/9/2014: Letting Go Ireland's Tax Arbitrage Model Will be a Painful Process

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OECD has put forward their proposals for new international tax rules that, in theory, could eliminate tax-optimisation structures that have...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

16/9/2014: Mapping Uncertainty Across Industries

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A very interesting post on HBR Blog ( http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/the-industries-plagued-by-the-most-uncertainty/ ) mapping technological...

16/9/2014: Allegedly, Irish Consumers Have Pulled Back Spending in August

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It is with some puzzlement that I read the following tweet: Being aware that there has not been any new data on retail sales or consu...