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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Seanad : babies and bathwater
As we leave 2011 one of the government promises which they announced as part of their election appears to be still on track. They do appear to be intent on getting rid of the upper house of the Irish Parliament, … Continue reading
Down the Memory Hole: why we should give more priority to economic and financial history
A few months ago I found myself teaching third-year students for about one hour on the historical experience of stocks and bonds in relation to the risk/return characteristics. I’m sure most people who have taught finance will have come across … Continue reading
What will 2012 bring us on the economic front?
This post is an expanded and hyperlinked version of an opinion piece published n the Irish Examiner, 24 December 2011 http://www.examiner.ie/business/another-full-blown-euro-crisis-looms-in-2012-178197.html This has been a pretty horrific economic year, with the European economy stumbling from crisis to chaos and back … Continue reading
No simple solutions to our economic woes
This post is an expanded version of an opinion piece in the Irish Examiner published Saturday 17th December. http://www.examiner.ie/business/nobodys-paving-the-road-for-return-to-growth-177533.html So another European summit has ground to an inconclusive conclusion. It is still not clear whether or not the decision by … Continue reading
Referenda, Promissory Notes and Anglo
So it seems that there is going to have to be a new referendum, in order to put in place the treaty changes to underpin the Franco German proposal to end the Eurozone crisis. The proposals have an element which … Continue reading
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The Euro : moving on or just staying in a death spiral
This week saw a number of developments in the ongoing Eurozone crisis, none of them particularly good news for the currency. The published opinion piece was sent to the Irish Examiner before the coordinated Merkel-Sarkozy announcements on the need for fiscal union, … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, competitveness, economy, Europe, politics
