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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.

Reforming the Public Servic: More on Govt Prog

Slí Eile 28/12/2009

Slí Eile: Continuing on the Renewed Programme of Government - the Section on Reform of public services (p33) contains some good (and long overdue …

New Year Resolutions?

Slí Eile 26/12/2009

Slí Eile: Remember the Renewed Programme for Government (early October)? In the meantime we have had Budget 2010. Following earlier blogs on the …

Ireland seeks Hedge Funds

Nat O'Connor 23/12/2009

Nat O'Connor: A article in the Financial Times states that the Government is seeking to attract hedge funds to Ireland. Dublin to open door for hedge …

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