As we speak, news is breaking of a deal involving the issue of new government bonds to cover the ruinous Anglo promissory notes.   These bonds will mature in 2025 [...]

If you're a regular visitor here, you'll know what I think of the 2008 bank guarantee issued by the two Brians in the middle of the night, with a metaphorical [...]

I'd like to introduce the latest member of the Bock Collective. Brian Lucey is Professor of Finance at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin, which means he knows a lot more than [...]

Who'd have thought that garlic was such a big deal? Last Friday, Paul Begley, a vegetable importer got six years in jail for evading €1.6 million in import tax due on [...]

Game on. Now we're in the big time as Ireland is set to vote on accepting  the fiscal stability treaty and the pressure comes on to say Yes.  My online [...]

Here's something I think would be worth attending if you happen to be anywhere within striking distance of Maynooth on Thursday.  The Centre for the Study of Wider Europe and [...]

The Greek national library is burning.  It's happening now. Imagine that.  The national library of Greece is burning to the ground. The national library of the country that gave us [...]

Enda Kenny was on the radio this morning, talking about his recent head-patting encounter with Nicolas Sarkozy.  He says the new fiscal compact won't cause any more austerity than we [...]

For years, I thought my bank had a stock of anti-money in its vaults, and when my few shillings came into contact with the stuff, they were instantly annihilated.  They [...]

Anger is a positive emotion. There's a lot of it going around lately, and it grows deeper by the day, not helped by our prime minister telling the world that [...]