Ireland

Systemically Dangerous Institutions – the U.S., Iceland, and Ireland by William K. Black This column was prompted by Thomas Hoenig's December 1, 2010 op ed in the New York Times (“Too Big to Succeed”) warning that we must end banks…

by Michael Schussele The people of Ireland have been impressed into a life of indentured servitude by the financial engineers of the IMF and EU to pay the debts of bankers (723 billion euro of guarantees) which were not their debts and to…

by Win Thin Here are some more thoughts regarding the Fitch downgrade of Ireland by three notches to BBB+. The agency cited the mounting costs of the banking system rescue as a major factor behind the move, and is consistent with what we…

Highlights The US dollar headed higher, except against the Australian dollar, but continues to outperform against the rest of the G10. The euro, after earlier losses accelerated around $1.332, traded below $1.320 following the news that…

Highlights The US dollar is mostly lower on news that US President Obama reached an agreement to extend the Bush tax cuts for another two years, which has lifted stocks and buoyed risk appetite, despite the speculation that China may…

Market participants are already making their bets that the ECB will "print money". Below John Brynjolfsson tells Bloomberg why he thinks the ECB will monetise the sovereign debt problem. His firm is selling core Europe and buying the…

Marshall Auerback argues that despite a 'blame-a-thon' on Ireleand, Germans banks are really at the core of the eurozone catastrophe.

This is an analysis of the remaining options in the euro zone post-Ireland bailout. This period in Europe reminds me very much of the period after the Indy Mac failure in the U.S. after which markets were in a permanent state of stress.…

The US dollar continues its rally with the largest movements against the euro as the market is clearly disappointed with the rescue package of Ireland. Despite a three year high increase in euro-zone confidence, the euro continues to…

This chart from Spiegel gives you a sense of the magnitude of the deficit reductions that must be accomplished in order to get the European periphery under the Maastricht 3% hurdle.   Source: Spiegel