Brokers short sell themselves in a race to the bottom. It is clear that I am no fan of the new 'homeloanchoice' scheme brought into being in the 2009 budget. I have always felt that 'if it a... Continue reading
The best monetary decision will be that which is taken I have looked back at market crashes, the Dutch Tulip Bulb crash, the Railway crash in the USA, the Great Depression, the Oil Crisis in... Continue reading
NIB’s ‘LTV’ Tracker now extinct NIB had long championed their 'LTV Tracker' as the best value product on the market. Indeed it was, but today we have seen the removal ... Continue reading
ECB Cut Rates by 0.5% bringing the ECB base rate to 3.75% The ECB rate change has given many of us a pleasant surprise, the ECB has cut rates by 0.5% giving a new base rate of 3.75%. For many o... Continue reading
Things are gonna change ’round here. The banking sector is in for some big changes, today we will consider some of ‘what may be’, this article is taken with a view of looki... Continue reading
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
The road less travelled and life in the new world I wrote Monday night/Tuesday morning about buying distressed stocks. So yesterday morning I bought Anglo Irish at €2.94 and today they ... 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
Where is my bailout? The average investor has seen their portfolio decrease in value by about 20%, the average property owner is not far off that either. Th... 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