Bailout Abuse – distortions occur within 24 hours of Finance Bill It is no secret that your author is anti-intervention, we speak at times about market distortions caused by government intervention. Th... Continue reading
Don’t follow me down this road. Contrarian moves. 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 ... Continue reading
Fancy a bit of inflation? What does a $700bn bailout and the 6% national wage agreements have in common? There are two types of inflation, ‘headline’ and ‘core’. Put simply headline inflation takes into account everything, petrol prices, th... Continue reading
Resisting that which is easy: Why economic health must outweigh lobbyists for first time buyers in the budget There is something awful that might be about to happen, namely the current Government are considering a special type of loan for first ... Continue reading
It’s Official, we are in a recession: Irish recession 2008 I had said back in January that we were on the cusp of a recession, that this would have started out in Q1 and only be realised further... Continue reading
If I’m going to do your job at least pay me for it… the M50 There are now new ‘gateless’ tolls on the M50. And one thing that means is that the people who used to work there are now gone, further... Continue reading
Odds favour you losing. One of the most telling things you can do when you seek an answer is to run the numbers that may help you interpret the information for... Continue reading
Financial Regulator probe into mortgage brokers & estate agents. Yesterday the Indo had a front page story about brokers and estate agents could potentially ‘rip-off’ customers. This obviously affects... Continue reading
Interest Rates: The Fed, The Bank, and the ECB Interest rates are again in the headlines as the Fed, the Bank of England and the ECB all had meetings. It may be a little known point ... Continue reading
FSA warns banks, but will the Irish Regulator follow suit? The FSA (Financial Services Authority) has warned specialist lenders that it has extreme reservations over how they are handling some a... Continue reading