Saturday, June 20, 2015

20/6/15: WLASze: Weekend Links of Arts, Sciences & zero economics

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Couple of non-economics related, but hugely important links worth looking into... or an infrequent entry into my old series of WLASze: Wee...

20/6/15: STEM to Bull: Time to Rethink Irish Tech Propaganda?

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So we are being told there are brilliant opportunities available in employment in Sciences, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (ST...

20/6/15: Keep Faith in Ireland's Energy Regulator

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So remember the promise of CER-driven regulatory pricing of energy in Ireland? It went something like: we set high tariffs to encourage co...
Friday, June 19, 2015

19/6/2015: Two charts plotting long term GDP crises and cumulative growth

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One hell of a neat chart plotting cases of largest GDP drops in history (since 1950) by country and period: via @FT, h/t @ReutersJamie...

19/6/2015: Greek ELA and ECB... What's the Rationale?

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The price of getting Greece ejected or pushed out of the euro has now risen once again as ECB added to the ELA provided to Greek banks ami...

17/6/2015: Mr. John Flynn’s Letter to the Banking Inquiry

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Here is a letter by Mr. John Flynn informing the Banking Inquiry Chairman, Ciaran Lynch, T.D. about the issue of overcharging at the Anglo...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

18/6/15: Russian Central Bank Targets Rebuilding of Foreign Reserves

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Recently, speaking at a banking conference in St Petersburg, Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia outlined the CBR positi...

18/6/15: Tripling Permissions... and Where's That Construction Boom?

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CSO released Planning Permissions figures for Q1 2015 with the following summary: Which certainly conveys a sense of a veritable boom...

17/6/15: Mr. John Flynn Letter to TDs on Anglo/IBRC/Nama Overcharging

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Here are the direct exerts from the correspondence sent by Mr. John Flynn to a number of TDs in relation to the Banking Inquiry on Decem...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

17/6/15: Brian Lenihan: The Documentary

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RTE documentary about Brian Lenihan  http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10432424/ . A person who, in my opinion, has left a very complex, ...

17/6/15: 10 Cases Worth Asking Nama About...

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So we are having an inquiry into IBRC on foot of an allegation that the 'bank' sold Siteserv asset at a loss to the taxpayers of so...

17/6/15: European Policy Uncertainty: May 2015

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The latest reading for the European Policy Uncertainty Index (measuring economic policy uncertainty as reflected in the media sources) has...