Monday, October 24, 2016

24/10/16: Hacktivism on the rise? Welcome to the well-predicted future

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Given a rising prevalence and impact of the cyber attacks in recent weeks, here are some slides from my February 2016 course notes on ERM ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

23/10/16: Too-Big-To-Fail Banks: The Financial World 'Undead'

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This is an un-edited version of my latest column for the Village magazine Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis back in 2008, E...

22/10/16: U.S. Election: Can There Even Be a Winner?

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Despite offering, to many people, especially those tending to think of themselves as either 'liberal left' or centre to centre-rig...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

22/101/16: Cashless Society: Efficiency 1 : Privacy 0

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My comments on the dangers associated with the idea of the 'cashless society' where traditional money is replaced by fully capture...

22/10/16: Watering Down Budget 2017 Promises?

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My article on the Irish Finance Bill for Budget 2017 is now available on Sunday Business Post  website:  https://www.businesspost.ie/opini...

22/10/16: Irish 12.5% Tax Rate and Someone's Loose Lips

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It has been some time since I commented here on the matters relating to Irish corporate taxation. For a number of reasons not worth coveri...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

11/10/16: BRIC Manufacturing PMI: 3Q 2016

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With all PMI data in (China Services data delay was a strange aberration this month), we can tally up 3Q 2016 PMI results. Based on 3mo ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

23/9/16: The Future of Work: Uncharted Policy Waters

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My presentation on economic and social challenges of the emerging Gig-economy (contingent workforce) from earlier this year:  http://cxcco...

23/9/16: Two Major Partnerships for AID:Tech

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AID:Tech CEO, Joseph Thompson presented at the Techstars Demo Day earlier this week. Here is the video of his excellent talk about AID:T...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

21/9/16: BOJ New (non) Bazuka

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A bit more on BOJ 'inverse' Twist here:  http://expresso.sapo.pt/economia/2016-09-21-Banco-do-Japao-lanca-mao-de-nova-bazuca . ...

21/9/16: Apple Tax Case: Not the Rate, the Loopholes

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My column for the Village  covering the Apple Tax fiasco: http://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2016/09/not-the-rate-the-loopholes/ As ...

22/9/16: The most important charts in the world... BusinessInsider

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BusinessInsider  published their new set of "The most important charts in the world from the brightest minds on Wall Street" :  ...