Category Archives: Economics

TV3, The Morning Show – Personal Finance piece

Our personal finance piece on The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin focused on Credit Unions this week and the fact that they need one billion Euro to stay afloat.

Property Crash – Where to Now? RTE 1, 11th October 2011

We were delighted to take part in this show, the full show can be viewed on the RTE player (we just put up the clip we are in!).

Industrial Revolution Roundtable at the EHES 2011

Fascinating talk at the European Historical Economics Society conference which was held in Dublin this year.

Sunday Business Post: The Insider – recovery without austerity.

We were delighted to be this weeks ‘Insider’ at the Sunday Business Post, we looked at the mortgage market statistics and the idea of recovery without austerity.
The truth is a hard thing to suppress. Last week, we had another stark revelation about the mortgage market after RTE reported that there are now e20 billion in home loans with some level of arrears. That represents about one in six loan accounts.

Income inequality, is it getting better or worse as time passes by?

There are often strong arguments about the level of income inequality in any modern society, and it is seen as being a fundamentally bad thing (or at least I haven’t heard somebody who is trying to convince the world it is a good thing). However, this issue is not a modern one, and this is demonstrated by looking at the divergence from mean income that one would find in Roman society (see table below).

Using cost accounting in your business: the High/Low method

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Women’s Participation on the US workforce

I think this is a chart that clearly shows the additional work that women are putting in the US economy along with (likely) still doing a larger portion than male counterparts toward child-rearing in terms of time contribution.

Irish Examiner: Opinion piece on Debt Forgiveness

We had a piece in today’s Examiner on the topic of Debt Forgiveness, see below: ‘Debt forgiveness’ is an undefined expression, we have no commonly held interpretation of what it is. For that reason the debate rages as to whether it can occur or not; but without definition the argument cannot advance.
On one side you have household name economists and on another you have Fine Gaels Briay Hayes (Minister of State at the Department of Finance) saying it is an impossibility along with most of the banks.

TV3: NAMA mortgages & Household Charges on ‘The Morning Show’

Once a month we head over to TV3’s ‘The Morning Show’ to talk with Sybil and Martin about the property and finance markets in an easy to understand manner, this month the topic was NAMA mortgages and household charges.

Technical Chart: Dow, S&P, Nasdaq

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