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Category: Banking and finance

Deflationary Threat is Real and will lead us into deeper mire.

Paul Sweeney 06/08/2009

Paul Sweeney: The revenue shortfall in last night’s tax revenue figures to the end of July is a hefty €575 million greater than the Department of …

Financial exclusion - a lucrative business for some

Paula Clancy 06/08/2009

Paula Clancy: Last December, TASC organised a seminar on financial exclusion. The day before, Sean Fitzpatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish …

Social welfare cuts and NAMA

Peter Connell 05/08/2009

Peter Connell: Brian Lenihan is quoted in Saturday’s Irish Times as insisting that the banking crisis is ‘entirely separate’ to the financial …

Challenging the narrow ground

13/07/2009

The only reason that the government can still borrow on international markets to finance the day-to-day running of the country - some €24 billion …

Can Anglo-Irish be saved?

Dóchas 19/06/2009

Dóchas: Question: Should Anglo’s debts have been guaranteed, i.e. should it have been allowed to fail in September and guarantees extended only to …

Green shoots, slugs and the banking sector

Paul Sweeney 14/06/2009

Paul Sweeney: I’m sceptical of all the talk around “Green Shoots.” As a bit of a gardener, my green shoots this year have been eaten by slugs. …

Credit Rating Agencies are Punks!

Paul Sweeney 08/06/2009

Paul Sweeney: Ireland’s sovereign credit ratings were cut for the second time in just three months on Monday 8th June 2009 because of concern about …

An expanded comment: Paul Sweeney on Sean O Riain

Paul Sweeney 01/06/2009

Paul Sweeney: This is a thoughtful commentary on the banking crisis and what might transpire after it. At present as Sean O’Riain says, there is …

Banking Reform

Sean Ó Riain 29/05/2009

Sean O Riain: Once we have banks that have been re-capitalised and apparently stable once more, where does our financial system go? In negative …

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