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...

Today the Irish Times had an article about an American University opening a college here, in Dungarvan Co. Waterford. It occured to me ...

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 ...

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

The ECB generally maintain that they are there to control inflation, normally we interpret this as ensuring that prices don't get out o...

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...

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The banking bailout has come along, as many of us always thought it would, in the form of a (potential) €10 billion Euro package. An an...

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