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Friday 27 November 2020
The US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has said that the credit crash “could not have happened without the rating agencies”.
The Central Bank says problems at Berehaven resulted in “serious financial difficulties”.
We’re too focused on paying down our existing debt burden to consider new lending, says a new report.
Taro Aso says banks didn’t buy complex financial instruments because they couldn’t understand the English descriptions.
They’ve both been picked as words of the year by Oxford University Press, that’s what.
When times are tough, even the people printing fake euros won’t keep up the liquidity supply.
Data published by the EU’s statistics body shows that the European economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in Q4 of 2011.
After slowly winding down its programme of hoovering up eurozone debt, the ECB was called back into action in a big way.
Overnight deposits at the ECB jumped by €65bn on Monday – potentially undermining ECB efforts to get money moving again.
Asian stocks and shares rose overnight, in a sign that markets are welcoming yesterdays intervention by six central banks.
Just as the economy began to bite, sales in the Dáil bar fell by just under 10 per cent. Not much Bass sold either…
Data compiled by Bloomberg shows that Ireland’s banks got emergency loans from the US while being capitalised back home.
New data from the Central Statistics Office show that the gap between pay for men and women widened in 2009.
90 per cent of all business loan applications were approved in 2007, but only 50 per cent were given the thumbs-up by 2010.
Good news on the jobs front as the numbers employed in Dublin financial centre creep back towards a 2007 peak.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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