Sometimes I have to wonder where the blame-game changed course and the organisations with no commitment to societal well-being were bur...

How many kicks can a broker take before rolling over and crying 'uncle!'. A whole bunch it seems. Today AIB informed the intermediar...

People ask me 'how is business' a lot, is it macabre fascination or do they want to hear something reassuring? I don't know, but my gen...

I wrote before about the errors of compensation in financial services, in a nutshell people were earning money for short term performan...

One of my favourite things to do is to talk to the people who write the books I love, often they are hard to reach, others are surprisi...

That banking in Ireland is a little irrational at present is a given, however, there are occurrences in the market which will change pr...

Rates likely to rise as per AIB's statement, and PTsbs actions, what we are trying to tell everybody, in clear English is this: 'If you...

Robert H. Frank of Cornell University wrote a great book called 'The Economic Naturalist, why economics explains almost everything', it...

The most popular question I am asked as of late is whether or not we are at the bottom of the housing market, and the answer is 'no.......

I was really disappointed to hear that Jack O'Connor of SIPTU and Sean Sherlock of the Labour party had brought the idea of 'removing t...

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