Scary Chart: US Private Debt to GDP The US Private Debt to GDP chart is one that concerns me, it spells ‘deleveraging for many years’ in big bold letters. You don’t need m... Continue reading
Some thoughts on the HSE and access to healthcare. There is one cure for scarcity: abundance. When there is a scarcity of any resource nothing brings down the price quicker than abundanc... Continue reading
Canada did it so why can’t Ireland? The following is a piece by David Hay, the Chief Investment Officer of Evergreen Capital, it came to me via a newsletter sent by John M... Continue reading
How ‘Shared Equity’ in an arrears cases would(n’t) work This piece is a demonstration of the way in which a a bank will opt for ‘shared equity’ with a home owner who is in arrears as means to... Continue reading
Debt forgiveness & Writedowns, one in the same? Below is a comment made by the Regulator at UCC while talking to a group of compliance officers. “Reform of the bankruptcy regime co... Continue reading
Krugman on Chinese currency – Is China a currency manipulator? Having only covered competitive currency devaluations yesterday it is interesting to see this video today in which CNBC correspondent B... Continue reading
Competitive Currency Devaluations I have been talking for some time about a ‘rip off’ that the US will attempt to make against China, that it could take a belligerent fo... Continue reading
Site Value Tax: What is it? How does it work? I volunteer with a group called Smart Taxes who are a sustainable taxation think tank. This has post is taken from their site (original... Continue reading