Category: Banking and finance
Never a reckless lender be
Tom McDonnell 26/11/2010
Tom McDonnell: One of the images below is from Patrick Honohan's paper in the Economic and Social Review June 2009. If you combine the two you can …
Equity Option Incentive Plan
24/11/2010
Ger O’Toole, a property business professional, has come up with an Equity Option Incentive Plan as one solution to the mortgage debt problems that …
FT on bailout and banking
23/11/2010
"Ireland’s uninvited helpers seem set on perpetuating Dublin’s dysfunctional policy of throwing good money after bad and filling holes into which …
Cometh the moment of truth
Slí Eile 16/11/2010
Slí Eile: Some international organs of the media are showing a particular interest in Ireland which extends to the voices crowded out in the …
The Banking Crisis is Unresolved
Nat O'Connor 16/11/2010
Nat O'Connor: Today's 'crisis' seems to be more about the timing of key EU meetings than about anything of substance that requires Ireland to tap …
Is Mr (Bond) Market in Charge?
Jim Stewart 12/11/2010
Jim Stewart: (The Governor of the Central Bank, Patrick Honohan is quoted as stating to the Oireachtas Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs :- …
2011, 2014, the Bond Markets and Growth
Nat O'Connor 05/11/2010
Nat O'Connor: It seems to me that there is some confusion in the way in which international factors on Ireland's deficit are presented to the general …
Burn ALL the bank bondholders
Paul Sweeney 02/11/2010
Paul Sweeney: The Irish government’s cap-doffing attitude to the speculators who lent money to the reckless bosses of Anglo Irish Bank and the …
Collateral Damage from the Bank Collapse
Nat O'Connor 29/10/2010
Nat O'Connor: The Irish Independent has published a table of major losers from the fall of AIB bank shares. This is merely illustrative of the damage …
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