It ought not to come as a surprise to regular readers that the first Quarter of 2018 ended by defying its bullish start, perched atop a sea of reports from…
Rabo Direct just announced that it is exiting Ireland May 16th next, leaving Irish retail investors with a choice of banks with inferior credit rating www.rabodirect.ie The Dutch community owned bank…
Regular readers won’t be surprised by current events. The surprise is how long it lasted before the euphoria about the global economy being in sync met the chilling reality that…
“A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody knows what it is” This was a British newspaper advertisement in 1720, the year of South Sea Bubble…
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Especially if you’ve read The Pivot (exclusively available from www.jackandjill.ie) or any of our regular releases you’ll be familiar with the case that the unaddressed issue of excessive debt, fueled…
In the 2006 book Loot I’d identified the Irish market as in a bubble but also identified the US as vulnerable, advising readers to reduce debt to under 50% of property values,…
January 2018 - Has the Irrational Exuberance Phase Arrived? Storm Eleanor is hammering at the window, announcing her arrival at the South West Atlantic coast, as I write an opening…
The Flash, a comic book superhero possessing super speed and extreme reflexes that appear to violate the laws of physics. The Flash Crash, not a superhero moment, a rapid, deep,…