Credit Default Swaps hit a record high yesterday for Irish Sovereign Debt. CNBC spoke to Brian Cowen on this topic yesterday, our Stude...

There is an automatic assumption that a strong currency (in particular against the USD) leads to a difficult exporting position because...

The picture below spells it out clearly. The green line is the S&P 500, it shows that it has made and lost money resol...

It is simple, and it is straight forward, there is a line of people who take the pain when banks encounter problems and it goes like th...

In recent correspondence the Financial Regulator wrote explaining that they have merged with the Central Bank, so in future, instead of...

We are not issuing bonds, so the cost of servicing our debt has not magically risen to ‘7%’ because we are not borrowing at that rate, ...

Every calamity in human history tends to have a corresponding scape goat. Often in financial busts it becomes xenophobic, race often pl...

We hear about Debt/GDP all the time (national debt/Gross Domestic Product; total output of the economy) and the standard argument is th...

We have been talking about this for a while (28/01/09, 11/03/09, 23/04/09), it was a popular topic on this blog in 2009 but well covere...

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