Tag: domestic economy
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Irish Budget Theatre and the Ghost of 1977
Tuesday sees the budget, a by now largely meaningless piece of set piece theatre. The old days when ministers were afraid to speak a word for fear of leaking have, thankfully, gone. Yet the setpiece remains, and it is a high point of the political year for the minister for finance to deliver the plans…
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Taxes, bull and the Irish economy
Another week another inversion. This time, passing almost unnoticed in the august torpor, one of the worlds largest meat companies, JBS, signalled that it would relocate its HQ to Ireland. It also noted that this HQ company would be controlled from an office park in Herefordshire. The reasons for this have nothing whatsoever to do with…
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Irish Banks : Arrears, Deposits, Bail-in and Interest Rate Editon
This is an edited and extended version of a column in The Irish Examiner 26 October 2013 There is a great book on marketing titled “the long tail” , which stresses that instead of trying to hit millions of customers at once its perhaps better to do millions of niches. Replete with examples it was…
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Irish Banks failure to deal with BTL mortgage arrears gives scant hope for the future.
This is a expanded version of my column with the Irish Examiner of October 12 2013. With the budget around the corner we are hearing soothing noises all round about the economy. Apparently things are grand, or about to be. We are to be grateful that in an inversion of 1 Kings 12:11 we are…