Wednesday, August 23, 2017

23/8/17: Ireland: A Haven for SPVs?

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Ireland scored another ‘first’ in the league tables relating to tax optimisation and avoidance, staying at the top of the Euro area rank...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

22/8/17: Focus Economics on Refugees Integration Challenge

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Focus Economics  posted a neat and timely blog post on the topic of potential economic impacts of mass forced migration that has been swee...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

16/8/17: Year Eight of the Great American Recovery: Household Debt

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U.S. data for household debt for 2Q 2017 is out at last, and the likes of Reuters and there best of the official business media are shou...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

15/8/17: A Great Recovery or a Great Stagnation?

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Value-added is one measure of economic activity that links the production side to consumption/ demand side (using inputs of say $X value t...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

12/8/17: Some growth optimism from the Russian regional data

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An interesting note on the latest data updates for the Russian economy via Bofit. Per Bofit: "Industrial output in Russian regions...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

12/8/17: Are Irish Property Prices on a Sustainable Path?

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Some of the readers of this blog have been asking me to revisit (as I used to do more regularly in the past) the analysis of Irish prope...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

10/8/17: 2Q Start Ups Funding Data: Big Lessons Coming

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2Q 2017 figures for seed funding and startups capital rounds is in, and the slow bleeding of the Silicon Dreams appears to be entering a...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

9/8/17: Global Debt Bubble 2002-2017

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A nice chart showing evolution of global debt levels since 2002 via Reuters: Source:  https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-global-markets...

9/8/17: Euro Area Banks Bailouts: The Legacy Still Hangs Over Our Heads

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The Financial Times has published a very neat visualisation of the global banks bailouts net impact to-date:  Source:  https://www.ft.c...

8/8/17: Did Irish Household Spending Fully Recover from the Crisis?

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I have recently seen several research notes claiming that in 1Q 2017, Ireland has finally fully recovered from the shock of the Great Rece...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

8/8/17: Irish Taxpayers Face a New Nama Bill

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Ireland has spent tens of billions to prop up schemes, like Nama and IBRC. These organisations pursued developers with a sole purpose: to ...
Friday, August 4, 2017

3/8/17: New research: the Great Recession is still with us

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Here is the most important chart I have seen in some months now. The chart shows the 'new normal' post-2007 crisis in terms of per...