Often companies and economists make forecasts and predictions about the direction of the economy, so it is interesting that two of the ...

Today I am taking out the crystal ball, and asking it if these final weeks of December 2008 and the start of January 09' are the tippin...

The Euribor 3 month money is at 2.822% which means the margin on interbank money is now at 0.322% (the current base rate is 2.5%) over ...

Taking rent is perhaps the best and yet most unproductive part of an economy, in the past we have spoken about the concept of 'rent tak...

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

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...

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...

Compliance is set to become a core area in financial services because one result of the current financial crisis is that people will wa...

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