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A long time in the hole
Michael Taft 07/01/2010
Michael Taft: I’ve touched on this subject before but given the New Year and the apparent ‘green shoots’ that are emerging (or the alleged …
Exchequer figures: turning a corner or heading into a cul-de-sac?
An tSaoi 05/01/2010
An Saoi: Well, the end of year Exchequer Figures have arrived and are far better, or should I say are less worse, than was expected. The figures are …
Lessons from Detroit's decline
Paul Sweeney 05/01/2010
Paul Sweeney: Progress is not linear. If NAMA goes wrong and if the Deflationary School of Economics (most mainstream economists) wins on policy, …
1,406 reasons to change course
Michael Burke 04/01/2010
Michael Burke: The number of corporate insolvencies in Ireland has soared to 1,406 in 2009, according to InsovencyJournal.ie. This exceeds the level …
Personal debt levels
An tSaoi 04/01/2010
An Saoi: The Central Bank published its preliminary statistics for November a day early, they are available here. The figures continue to make awful …
Finding facts in Fantasy Land
Michael Taft 03/01/2010
Michael Taft: One of my New Year’s resolutions was to spend less time on countering the arguments of the orthodoxy and develop positive analysis …
IFSRA: The financial regulator which failed
Anon 02/01/2010
Anon: On January 1st 2010, we saw how the basic philosophy of IFSRA, and the key people, seemed to be informed by the philosophy of “free” …
Paying the price of poor regulation in Banking
Anon 01/01/2010
Anon: Morgan Kelly’s UCD paper on the Irish Bubble reproduced here on 29th December is a chilling view of the kind of policies which nearly brought …
The Irish Credit Bubble
Slí Eile 29/12/2009
Slí Eile: Here is a link to an interesting paper by economist Morgan Kelly at UCD.
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