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    The pincer of fixed rates while in negative equity

    A recent article in the Independent stated that 'fixed rate borrowers are taking all the pain'. The base rate has fallen from 4.25% to ...
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    How does the Geithner Plan work?

    Sample Investment Under the Legacy Loans Program Step 1: If a bank has a pool of residential mortgages with $100 face value that it is...
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    We need to clear our bonds, ensure there are retail offerings.

    Ireland has been downgraded by Standard and Poors, we are on a ratings watch with Fitch and Moody's as well. The last bond issued by th...
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    Rent or Buy the 5 year outlook

    Today we are going to look at a comparison of renting vs buying with a five year outlook given the current interest rates, the yield ou...
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    Recapitalised banks ‘cherry picking’ applications.

    The only banks that are truly 'open for business' are those that have received state funding, and this is on both sides of the book. O...
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    Nassim Taleb on failing to allow failure

    Nassim Taleb, a well known professor, economist and risk management adviser talks about the failure of allowing failure, that we are no...
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    Good news: Rate drops and recovery indicators

    Doom is the only thing selling lately, but today we will bring you some of the Sunny statistics that are being largely overlooked. This...
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    MicroVentures, how a microfinance approach to investment in Ireland could create jobs

    I have covered the area of microfinance before, and in nations where it works the multiplier effect of the credit is said to be quite a...
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    Geithner plan, re-explained by Khan Academy

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    New world currency, Euro hegemony in the future?

    A commentator talks about the euro, dismissing euroskeptics and euro bashers, arguing that it will be (perhaps) the new world currency?...
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