Tuesday, February 27, 2018

27/2/18: Volatility & Uncertainty are Back with a Bang

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My recent article on markets volatility for the Sunday Business Post   https://www.businesspost.ie/business/volatility-uncertainty-back-ba...

27/2/18: FocusEconomics Top Blogs in Economics and Finance, 2018

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FocusEconomics  top economics and finance blogs roll list for 2018 is out  https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/top-economics-finance-blogs...

27/2/18: RePEc Rankings 2018

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T'is a season for rankings, so delighted to be 34th on RePEc's reputable list of Twitter-respectables in economics...
Monday, February 26, 2018

26/2/18: South Korea Avoids Sunk Cost Fallacy

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As shown consistently by economists, Olympic Games are a vanity project that wastes public resources, scarce public resources. In this cas...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

25/2/18: Syria: a Web of VUCA

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In his column this week, Tyler Cowen, of Bloomberg View, sums up the VUCA nature of the ongoing conflict in Syria. In fact, his article is...

25/2/2018: Tax Havens and Financial Secrecy ca 2018

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The notion of what defines a tax haven is a complex one and does not easily lend itself to a precise definition. This presents numerous pr...
Friday, February 23, 2018

23/2/18: Ireland's Migration Policies are Working Well

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How to do immigration policy right? Ireland's CSO has published some new data on educational attainment in Ireland, covering 2017 resu...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

21/2/18: Cryptos Fans Checkmating Themselves on Petro

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Venezuela launched the Petro, an oil-backed cryptocurrency that is supposed to augment (strike that: replace) the totally debased fiat cur...
Friday, February 9, 2018

9/2/18: Markets Mess: Sunday Business Post

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My Sunday Business Post  article from last week on the beginnings of the stock markets troubles:  https://www.businesspost.ie/business/mar...

9/2/18: Money Velocity and Signals of Households Leverage Risks

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Fed has a problem, folks. Not a new one, but a very, very persistent one: velocity of money. Here is the data: What does this mean? ...

9/2/18: Angus Deaton on Monopolization and Inequality

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For anyone interested in the topics of wealth inequality, structure of the modern (anti-market) economy and secular stagnation, here is an...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

7/2/18: American Wages, Corporotocracy & Why the Millennials Should be Worried

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Pooling together a range of indicators for wages, Goldman Sachs' Wage Tracker attempts to capture more accurate representation of wage...