Thursday, December 19, 2019

19/12/19: Irish Planning Permissions 3Q 2019: Some Goods, Some Bads

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The latest Irish data for Planning Permissions approvals is a mix of some good news, some bad news and some ugly trends. Here is the summa...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

18/12/19: Winning Trade [Price] Wars: Updated Data

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With the recent announcement of the so-called Phase 1 'Trade Deal' with China, the U.S. President has claimed that his Administrat...
Monday, December 16, 2019

16/12/19: There is no Inflation, folks... none...

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There is no inflation, folks. This is what the Fed been telling us for some time now. And the CPI figures, on aggregate, say the same. ...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

15/12/19: Under the Hood of Irish National Accounts: 3Q 2019 Data

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CSO have released the latest (3Q 2019) data for the National Accounts. The headlines are covered in the release here:  https://www.cso.ie/...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

14/12/19: Governance and Government Debt

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What I am reading this week: a new paper via EFMA, titled "Governance and Government Debt" by João Imaginário and Maria João Gue...
Friday, December 13, 2019

13/12/19: World Bank and WEF reports highlight relatively poor competitiveness rankings for Ireland

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The latest World Bank "Doing Business" report rankings and the WEF's "Global Competitiveness Report" rankings show...

13/12/19: UK Vote and Younger Voters

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On foot of the UK General Elections results, here is a telling sign of the changing generational effects on voting with some questions for...

12/12/19: Ireland's Jobs Creation Track Record: Raising Some Questions

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Doing some research on the state of precariat in modern labor markets, I came across some interesting data from the 'poster country...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

11/12/19: Private Sector Leads Electrification of Transport in Ireland

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Ireland's uptake of electric vehicles has risen dramatically in 2019 (to-date, data through November), according to the data release f...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

10/12/19: Irish Banks: Part 2

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Continuing with the coverage of the Irish banks, in the second article for The Currency , available here:  https://www.thecurrency.news/ar...

10/12/19: Irish Banks: Part 1

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Returning back to the blog after a break, some updates on recent published work. In the first article on Irish banking for The Currency,...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

16/10/19: Recalling the Celtic Tiger

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Recalling the Celtic Tiger , edited by Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien is coming out this week from the series of Reimagining ...