2016 began with very heavy falls in equities meanwhile fixed interest Government bonds rallied even further driving more yields into negative territory, still investors piled in, guaranteed to lose money…
scarletDecember 21, 2016
Trump leading a divided Republican Party has taken the US Presidency and with it a Republican Party that now controls both houses, Congress and Senate. It is time for calm…
scarletNovember 9, 2016
It’s a zero sum game chasing up a rising property market with demands for higher pay, where the most powerful and well organised squeeze the least powerful and disorganised in…
scarletNovember 8, 2016
The only unknown is how much the largesse will be, but the least well-off in the most insecure jobs have always funded the higher pay and job security of those…
scarletOctober 25, 2016
They may yet transpire to be the cause of the intermittent financial bubbles that have shaken the global economy since 2008, as they were in the late 1920s, says Eddie…
scarletJuly 12, 2016
It would appear that a disenchantment with the failings of a recently established global economy was one of the reasons for a Brexit vote in the UK, but Britain will…
scarletJuly 7, 2016
One-upmanship has defined wealth creation and its distribution in this country. It’s time the State, the super-rich, and public sector elites paid for a fairer Ireland, writes Eddie HobbsTo get…
scarletJune 20, 2016
Whatever the outcome of the EU referendum financial expert Eddie Hobbs believes it will leave a deep divide with serious implications for Ireland.This is the witching hour, the moment just…
scarletJune 20, 2016
We don’t own our natural resources under Article 10 of the Constitution. It needs to be repealed, but is there anyone with the bottle to take it on, asks Eddie…
scarletJune 1, 2016