Monday, November 14, 2016

13/11/16: Oil Prices: Still in the Whirlpool of Uncertainty

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This is an unedited, longer, version of my article for the Sunday Business Post  covering my outlook for oil prices. Traditionally, crud...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

11/11/2016: Europe's 'Convincing' Recovery

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Europe's strong, convincing, systemic recovery ... the meme of the European leaders from Ireland all the way across to the Baltics, an...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

9/11/16: Bitcoin vs Ether: MIIS Students Case Study

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Following last night's election results, Bitcoin rose sharply in value, in line with gold, while other digital currencies largely fail...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

3/11/16: CFR: A Tax Cure for American Monetarism

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My article for the Cayman Financial Review  on tax reforms required to bring U.S. corporate tax system to an internationally competitive s...
Friday, October 28, 2016

28/10/16: Rising Risk Profile for Italy

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Euromoney Country Risk on Italian referendum and rising risks relating to Euro area's third largest economy:
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 ...