Sunday, September 30, 2012
Ireland AM covered the financial services ombudsman report
Monday, September 10, 2012
Here’s a bailout worth considering…. f”34k the banks, and start a new one. This is not a novel idea, it’s called capitalism, one of the key things people bang on about is how ‘capitalism has failed’, it hasn’t, politicians have failed by putting national resources behind institutions that scarce warrant the unending support they have received. That we are starting to figure this out only AFTER we have spent all the money, so most of this is about spilt milk, but not all of the milk has been spilt, just this week we blew €600,000,000 on defunct and toxic Anglo (now ‘IBRC’) and on the 1st of October we’ll be blowing €1,000,000,000 on AIB.
We spoke to Martin King and Claire Brock (covering for Sybil) about property prices because Moody’s said prices would drop 20% while the ESRI said that prices would likely go up in cities.
We often hear that people in the public sector are overpaid. Typically the argument then turns towards the ‘fat cats’ and then quickly deteriorates into a ‘them’ vs ‘us’ debate, and depending on your employment type you take a certain side.
Recent surveys have indicated that there is a strong support towards buying a house, a whopping four out of five in a Millward Brown Lansdowne survey thought now is a good time to buy. This is on the back of a recent CSO statistic showing prices have didn’t change in March and in Dublin that they rose.
We were asked to comment on the recent CSO figures which showed that prices are still dropping but that there is perhaps a different dynamic in cities. In Dublin (the only city separately considered by the CSO) house prices have not dropped for two months in a row – actually rising.
In this piece Noleen Blackwell from FLAC and Karl spoke to Mark and Sinead about mortgage arrears and figures that were due out from the Central Bank. This was our first time to go on Ireland AM and as always everybody was lovely but not afraid to offer challenging debate on the topic.
Also filed in Accountancy, Banking, Mortgages
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Tagged banking, capital provisions, finance, financial advice, ireland am, karl deeter, mark cagney, mortgages, noleen blackwell, sindead desmond, strategic default, technical finance
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We are pleased to be writing for the Sun on Sunday, we think that taking high finance to people on the street in an easy to understand format in plain English is noble work, we hope you enjoy the column and are glad with the big number of questions we are now getting every week.
Also filed in Accountancy, Accountant, Advisors.ie In the Press, Banking, Bonds, Property, Sun on Sunday
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Tagged ela, emergency liquidity assistance, exceptional liquidity assistance, karl whelan, michael noonan, patrick honohan, promissory note, sun on sunday
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We are delighted to let you know that we are doing the personal finance and money column in the new Sun on Sunday. The column is called Mr. Money (taken from the UK one of the same name) and every week we’ll be covering financial topics, personal finance and answering readers questions.
The most recent edition is here, we look forward to keeping you up to date with everything as the new Sun on Sunday goes from strength to strength.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
In this clip we gave some opinion on the property and credit market, and how it is affecting prices.
Also filed in ACCA, Accountancy, Accountant, Advisors.ie In the Press, Financial Advice, Mortgages, Property, Wealth
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Tagged cso index, karl deeter, property index, property prices, property report
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