There are generally two strands to monetary stimulus, firstly there are interest rates, and then there is the actual money supply. We'l...

The banking bailout has come along, as many of us always thought it would, in the form of a (potential) €10 billion Euro package. An an...

Bond yields in the USA are at historically low yields, the 'flight to quality' we are seeing is that there is a wholesale flight from t...

Reverse stress testing has been advised by the FSA (Financial Services Authority) in the UK who have said that stress testing in UK fin...

Banks, in my opinion, should not have been bailed out, they are a business like any other and when people talk about the 'systemic risk...

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for pint and the bill for all of them comes to €100. If they split their bill the way we pay our...

The falling interest rates are heralded by consumers of Irish mortgage companies as a godsend - well, for the clients of the Irish bank...

Today's post is poking fun at various 'isms' and we thought it might provide some light humour given the usual serious tone of our arti...

With the news coming out daily about prime lenders facing higher and higher impairment charges it begs the question of who will do bett...

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