On Wednesday there was a conference in Trinity College Dublin called 'Irish economic policy for the crisis: What next?'. This post is v...

The second session was chaired by John McHale now of NUIG, formerly of Queens University Canada, who I have emailed back and forth wit...

Tom Keene from Bloomberg talks about the yield curve and some of the spreads that we are seeing in the current market, as well as that ...

Research carried out by Nottingham Business School has shown that Brokers are the most trustworthy group of financial advisers. The pos...

Banks are restricting credit, in a market economy rationing is generally a mistake, but at the same time they can't come out and say 'w...

'Value for the taxpayer' is the most common line I hear in defence of nationalisation, and inside I laugh every time I hear this line, ...

There are winners and losers in every rate cut, so literally somebody, somewhere loses out every time, this can be the bank, a borrower...

We have been talking about this for some time, (see posts here 1, 2, 3, 4). In this clip Bloomberg editor Tom Keene talks about the iss...

Financial services (such as brokering) are a zero VAT business, we cannot charge VAT for our activities, we do however, pay VAT on all ...

National Public Radio in the USA have recorded a piece on Ireland it's about five minutes long and you can tune into it here. It inter...

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