Economic Incentives

With talk of “unsustainable debt” and “inevitability of default” growing ever louder I think the following graph from a previous post is im...

We have spent a great deal of time looking at the liability side of the balance sheets of the covered banks (total liabilities here , bonds ...

Earlier in the week we looked at the numbers relating to bonds issued by the six covered banks from the Central Banks’ Money, Credit and Ba...

We previously looked at the balance sheet position of deposits in Irish banks ( all banks here and the ‘covered’ banks here ).  While no on...

In January 2011 Irish Banks had borrowed €126 billion from the ECB.  Of this €96 billion was borrowed by domestic banks with the remainder t...

The graph of total deposits in all banks operating in Ireland paints an alarming picture. At first glance this would give rise to notion...

When the December release of the Central Bank’s Credit, Money and Banking Statistics were released we examined the bonds issued by domestic...

The Central Bank have released their Credit, Money and Banking Statistics for January.  We have looked at these before.  This month, however...

As of the end of December, domestic Irish banks had total liabilities of €742.5 billion.  Here is the list of banks included in this total. ...

The vernacular has seen phrases like “burn the bondholders”, “take a haircut” and “ordered default” enter into common use.   We have given s...

The liabilities of Irish financial institutions with the Eurosystem of central banks have been getting a great deal of coverage recently and...

After a look at deposits it wasn’t much of a stretch to run the same graphs for loans.  Here is the total amount of loans issued by all bank...

The release each month by the Central Bank of the Money, Credit and Banking Statistics has seen a shift in interest from the surge in privat...