The ECB rate change has given many of us a pleasant surprise, the ECB has cut rates by 0.5% giving a new base rate of 3.75%. For many o...

Now that countries are standing behind their national banks what will happen? Greece has backed deposits, Germany did the same. France,...

The banking sector is in for some big changes, today we will consider some of ‘what may be’, this article is taken with a view of looki...

We have a deficit, we don’t have the money required to run the country and that means we are in a hole. In July we told that it was €5....

It is no secret that your author is anti-intervention, we speak at times about market distortions caused by government intervention. Th...

I wrote Monday night/Tuesday morning about buying distressed stocks. So yesterday morning I bought Anglo Irish at €2.94 and today they ...

I have been nominated for an Irish Internet Association net-visionary award as best business blogger . I guess the lonesome path of rea...

The markets took the single biggest battering since the 20% fall off experienced in the 1987 crash. It came on the back of a rejection ...

The average investor has seen their portfolio decrease in value by about 20%, the average property owner is not far off that either. Th...

There are two types of inflation, ‘headline’ and ‘core’. Put simply headline inflation takes into account everything, petrol prices, th...

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