If the State can't organise a bailout effectively then what hope have they of running a bank? A simple and yet profound question: if th...

I had an interesting conversation with an Estate Agent recently who has been in the industry for over thirty years and he said that he ...

This is fairly off topic for me but today I will write about technology , namely the hand held gadget called a Reader. I recently recei...

Only a two days ago I wrote about the Bank of England considering a move to the lowest interest rate in the history of their central ba...

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 ...

It is 2009 and one of the things we need to look at (at least from the mortgage market perspective) is the availability of credit. Many...

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...

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