Posted in predictions, Economy, Banks on Mar 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Jim Cramer is host of CNBC´s Mad Money. And this is what he had to say about Bear Stearns last week. The Slate has a good article on Jim Cramer here, from Jan 2007.
Posted in Bastards, Banks, Property, Media, Ireland on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Here at Dublin Opinion, we don’t accept empty praise or the sort of ridiculous online fawning where one blog writer over zealously trumpets the skills of another blog writer in the hope of catching on the coat tails of their apparent popularity. Its rather distasteful, really.
But I have to publicly thank Tomaltach for the […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, Media on Feb 22nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Okay, so this morning didn’t go so well. First of all I was a little late getting my daughter to school and although we just made it in time it meant that I had to really leg it for the Dart. When I got there I had to push slow moving commuters out of the […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, France on Jan 28th, 2008 5 Comments »
I am to lose my job this week as the company I work for pass into liquidation. For the last couple of months, they have been slowly suffocated by the French banking sector - including Société Générale. To be fair to the latter, they were the bank that backed them the longest and the company […]
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Economy, irishness, Banks, Government on Oct 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Heads up to Random Walk for this one. And, ahem, McWilliams for the overdraft line. Ireland’s gross external debt increased by 262% under Fianna Fáil and the PDs, from around €521 billion in 2002, to over €1.36 trillion as of 30 June 2007. The gross external debt, according to the CSO, consists of “the gross […]
Posted in Economy, Banks, music on Sep 5th, 2007 4 Comments »
Apparently they’ve won some music prize.
Here’s a song called Golden Skans…
More Klaxons via hypemachine.
In other news, the OECD’s chief economist, Jean-Philippe Cotis, warned today that the fallout from the housing crisis in the US could trigger a recession in the world’s leading economy.
Bugger.
“Mr Cotis said in an interview […]
Posted in Economy, Banks on Aug 27th, 2007 7 Comments »
“The company would lend even if the borrower had been 90 days late on a current mortgage payment twice in the last 12 months, if the borrower had filed for personal bankruptcy protection, or if the borrower had faced foreclosure or default notices on his or her property.
Such loans were made, former employees say, because […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, music on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
A Random Walk, an Irish Financial blog has an interesting post today about our indebtedness and the small number of unoccupied homes which are holiday homes. I add it here simply because it confirms, further, Conor’s thesis.
Random Walk says:
It doesn’t matter what any of our Celtic Ostriches say about “begrudgers”, being number 1 in […]
Posted in Irish Society, Banks, Irish housing on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d be extremely grateful if anyone can tell me where I can find a figure for the amount of houses/apartments actually sold in Ireland, on a year-by-year basis. The best I can get is a series of reports telling me about prices and mortgages, but not about actual sales.
Any suggestions, please please […]
Posted in Economy, Bastards, Banks on Aug 15th, 2007 10 Comments »
Michael Taft, in his post on the Aer Lingus debacle makes an excellent point about the use or misuse of the phrase ‘commercial decision’ in relation to plan to move Aer Lingus’ Heathrow slots from Shannon to Belfast. The use of the phrase itself is supposed to suggest that such decisions are made by intellectually […]
