Friday, October 6, 2017

6/10/17: CA&G on Ireland's Tax, Banking Costs & Recovery

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Occasionally, the Irish Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) office produces some remarkable, in their honesty, and the extent of th...

5/10/17: Leverage Risk, Credit Quality & Debt Tax Shield

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In our Risk & Resilience class @ MIIS, we cover the impact of various aspects of the VUCA environment on, amongst other things, the We...

5/10/11: The Swedish Crises of 1910s & 1990s: The Lessons Never Learned

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Here is an interesting piece of evidence on the nature of real estate bubbles and financial crises these create. One of the largest fallou...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

3/10/17: Ambiguity Fun: Perceptions of Rationality?

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Here is a very insightful and worth studying set of plots showing the perceived range of probabilities under subjective measure scenar...
Monday, October 2, 2017

1/10/17: The Old, The Young and Resources Leveraging

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In our Economics class at MIIS, we have discussed last week - briefly - the dynamics of demographic change (ageing population and cohort...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

30/9/17: Technological Revolution is Fizzling Out, as Ideas Get Harder to Find

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Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb’s latest paper has just landed in my mailbox and it is an interesting one...
Friday, September 29, 2017

29/9/17: Eurocoin: Eurozone growth is still on the upside trend

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The latest data from Eurocoin - an early growth indicator published by Banca d’Italia and CEPR - shows robust continued growth dynamics ...

28/9/17: Pimco on Russian Economy: My Take

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An interesting post about the Russian economy, quite neatly summarising both the top-line challenges faced and the resilience exhibited to...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

28/7/17: Climbing the Deficit Mountains: Advanced Economies in the Age of Austerity

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Just a stat: between 2001-2006 period, cumulative Government deficits across the Advanced Economies rose by SUD 5.135 trillion. Over the s...

28/9/17: Schauble: A Requiem For Austerity Finance

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My comment for yesterday’s NY Times on Wolfgang Schäuble’s departure from the Finance Ministry post: https://nyti.ms/2k5N2Er  

28/9/17: Irish Migration: Some Good News in 2017

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While headline figures for net migration to Ieland paint an overall positive picture in the annual data (provided on April-April basis) ...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

21/9/17: Another reminder: Financial Crises are becoming more frequent & more disruptive

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As recently noted by Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner, new research from Deutsche Bank shows that "Post Bretton Woods (1971-) syste...