A hidden jobs shock is brewing. The sudden death of the centralised office is shifting Irish service jobs to the EU periphery, to countries like Romania and Greece as multi-nationals…
Comment On Saturday May 2nd the Government adjusted its support programme for Irish business. Monday May 4th, on trend, the Irish Times released it without journalistic analysis. It was left…
Our last Blog from Monday 9th March is here https://eddiehobbs.com/covid-19-top-10-economic-qas/ for reading if you haven’t done so already. It has been a whipsaw week for stock markets. Regular readers will…
Following the dramatic Lombardy Lockdown on Saturday night it was inevitable that markets would open in chaos on Monday given how they’d ended the year priced for perfection. By lunchtime…
The economic analysis of the potential impact of Covid 19 remains up in the air, combining the maths of infectious disease with speculation about the efficacy of health system responses.…
Eddie Hobbs writes for The Currency 4th February 2020 https://www.thecurrency.news/articles/8498/eddie-hobbs-financial-dark-pools-junk-bonds-and-the-curious-art-of-financial-advice
Paula (not her real name) received a delivery from a UK supplier with a letter apologising for the three week delay in the arrival of her new high waisted yoga…
This is written as a supplement to my analysis published here and in the Irish Examiner November 29 th and, given the social media discussion it has created, to deal…
Auto-Enrolment on Zombie Pensions Model Ireland is attempting to add a new pension product class without addressing the deep structural problems associated with the Old Age Pension Scheme and the…
Author: Eddie Hobbs 2006 "A warning about the need to Sell Property to reduce debt to under 50% of Balance Sheet value, to get out of low-grade banks that…
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