I was interested in the front page of today's Independent in which Charlie Weston broke a really big story about Irish banks being in a...

I used to be in a Chess Club, and one thing it taught me (apart from how to lose using the Kings Gambit) is that you can often see a ge...

Financial innovation has meant you can make money from many things which may or may not be considered morally correct, there are 'short...

Roger Bootle notes that markets do quite well at the end of a recession and at the start of a recovery by drawing the benefits of the f...

Sometimes when I'm having a rough day I decide to reach out to some of the people that I see on TV or read about in the press and talk ...

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...

Here is a simple question: 'how do you protect or even augment your portfolio returns when markets are crashing or where there is syste...

This is an interesting animated film on the origins of the crisis, it holds with the view that banks were only ever a part of the probl...

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