Tuesday, July 31, 2018

31/7/18: 65 years of profligacy and few more yet to come: U.S. Government Deficits

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The history and the future of the U.S. Federal Government deficits in one chart: Which shows, amongst other things, that The post-...

30/7/18: Broader Unemployment vs Official Unemployment: Ireland

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In the first post (see above) looking at the broader measures of unemployment and dependency ratios, recall that CSO publishes s...

30/7/18: Ireland's employment data: Official Stats vs Full Time equivalents

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Based on the most current data for Irish employment and working hours, I have calculated the difference between the two key time ser...

30/7/18: Egg Misses the Face at the Atlantic Council: Dodgy Banks, Dodgy Reports

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Buzzfeed report throws unwanted light onto the tight rope walking at the Atlantic Council, where some august fellows are earning cash on t...

30/7/18: Impact of Terrorist Events on European Equity Markets

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Our recent paper on the impact of terrorist events on equity markets valuations in Europe has been published in the Quarterly Re...
Monday, July 30, 2018

30/7/18: Annotated History of the U.S. Treasury Yield Curve

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Courtesy of the forgotten source (apologies) a neat summary chart plotting the timeline of the 10 year U.S. Treasury yield: For...

30/7/18: Corruption Perceptions: Tax Havens vs U.S. and Ireland

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Transparency International recently released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a measure of the degree of public concerns...

30/7/18: Burden Sharing, Reforms and Greece

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Much has been said in recent years about European reforms, recovery, burden-sharing and Greece. Most of it draws links of causality along ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

16/7/18: Wither Free Market America

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Prior to the 1990's, “U.S. markets were more competitive than European markets”, with the U.S. having a lead-start on the EU of some d...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

14/7/18: Elephants. China Shop, Enters a Mouse: Global Debt Bubble

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Bank for International Settlements Annual Report for 2018 has a very interesting set of charts covering the growing global debt bubble, on...

14/7/18: The Second Longest Recovery

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One chart never ceased to amaze me - the one that shows just how unimpressive the current 'second longest in modern history' recov...
Friday, July 13, 2018

12/7/18: Technology, Government Policies & Supply-Side Secular Stagnation

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I have posted about the new World Bank report on Romania's uneven convergence experience in the previous post ( here ). One interestin...