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A regular look at marketing issues from an economist's perspective.
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The Celtic Leopard
The Sunday Business Post today reported on my article in the latest issue of the Irish Banking Federation's About Banking entitled: The New Normal - Why Personal Banking Will Never Be The Same Again (pages 9-11).I suggest that Ireland's banks are lik...
Tie Ulysses to the mast
The Government's negotiators need to put wax in their ears. The public sector pay debacle is a classic example of conflicting time preferences. On the one hand there is the short term promise of no public sector strikes if the government cuts a deal ...
Family Failure is the Health of the State
We Irish don't invade countries, a fact I'm rather proud of. For some other nations war is the health of the state. But not for Ireland. Nor for most European countries these days. So if it isn't wars and armies and the permanent threat of 'the othe...
Val Falvey TD for Taoiseach
Will Val Falvey, TD do to the Irish political establishment what Father Ted did to the Irish Catholic Church? There are some interesting parallels: in Father Ted, Ardal O'Hanlon plays the part of a bumbling, not-quite-sure-why-he's-there character, p...
Good Debt, Bad Debt
The latest statistics from the Central Bank (table B2.2) show a continued contraction in lending to businesses (or should that be borrowing by businesses?) Should we worry? As I've noted before, sometimes the wisest thing in business is not to lend/b...
Crushing Consensus
The Taoiseach is worried that 'overwhelming negativity' is bad for the economy and bad for the nation. And now I'm worried. The last time a Taoiseach fretted about people talking down the economy it was followed by the worst recession in living memor...
