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Category: Banking and finance

Taking stock: 2010

Slí Eile 22/12/2009

Slí Eile: Following previous blogs about the principles underlying a progressive strategy for economic recovery with fairness, here are another …

NAMA debt

Michael Burke 17/12/2009

Michael Burke: Leading critics of NAMA argued prior to its inception that it would provide no new credit in the economy. Writing in today's Irish …

Municipal bonds can help solve our funding problems

10/12/2009

This post has been written by Stephen Kinsella of the University of Limerick and Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers Problem: Cash strapped local …

Recovery is not reform

01/11/2009

Recovery is not reform. The government’s intended path to recovery is a mixture of borrowing, pay cuts, and spending cuts. All recovery plans treat …

Shock News: The entire €4bn fiscal adjustment goes to just one Zombie Bank

Slí Eile 21/10/2009

Slí Eile: The next time you hear a politician or economist saying that our current public borrowing deficit ‘has nothing to do with NAMA’ show …

There are worse things than 'negative equity'

Nat O'Connor 06/10/2009

Nat O'Connor: There continue to be stories about falling housing prices (for example). We need to get some sense of what are reasonable housing costs …

Two reasons to vote yes

01/10/2009

Jim Stewart Reason 1 The Global Financial Stability Report by the IMF published on 30 September shows that, in February/March this year, the ECB was …

We’re broke (O no we’re not)

Slí Eile 15/09/2009

Slí Eile: This is September 2009. We’re economically broke. Well not quite…The recent Commission on Taxation Report has drawn attention to the …

Beyond NAMA – seeing a bigger picture

Slí Eile 13/09/2009

Sli Eile: Two television documentaries shown, recently: one called ‘Freefall’ a dramatic story of the current economic climate as it unfolded for …

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