Writing the wrongs of the financial crash
Fourdecades of laissez-faire policies have left Britain as a deeply indebted and uncompetitive economy that is unable to pay its way […]
Ireland
Unicredit and the trouble with Dublin’s Cayman-on-the-Liffey
In September 2007, a year before Ireland’s banks went belly up, Jonathan Sugarman, a risk manager at Unicredit Bank Ireland,
Simon Carswell: Inside Ireland’s, and probably the world’s, worst bank
I’m halfway through Simon Carswell’s Anglo Republic: Inside the bank that broke Ireland, and it’s a gripping read. In the
Mark Carney: The new sheriff in finance’s global village
The wild swings in global liquidity that continue to distort economies around the world might, if left unchecked, trigger the
An Irish financier tells it like it is
“Greed, greed, and more fecking greed.” This video was available on YouTube last year. Then it disappeared. But it is
The FSA/PwC investigation into Royal Bank of Scotland’s ‘bad decisions’ is a joke, right? — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 1
Royal Bank of Scotland probe THE Financial Services Authority’s obsession with “light touch”, laissez-faire regulation in 1997-2008 did more than
Irish crisis: how the Celtic Tiger became a moggy
Taiwanese-based Next Media Animation has produced its take on 300 years of Irish history. Okay it does simplify things a
Irish bailout seems to unravel before it’s even announced
You know that things must be getting desperate in Ireland when significant numbers of the country’s population want to draft
Europe’s “stability fund” unlikely to be up to the job
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, recently declared the European sovereign debt crisis was over. He told the Wall Street