Posts - Karl Whelan

Promissory Notes: No Magic Required

Here‘s an interesting article on promissory notes by Dan O’Brien of the Irish Times. Dan defends the ECB’s approach to […]

A member of the fourth estate passed on to me a “Background Briefing” from the government on promissory notes. It

My slides for today’s talk can be found here as a PowerPoint slide show and here as a PDF. They

I’ll be giving a talk on promissory notes at the Institute for International and European Affairs tomorrow at 12.45. Information

Here’s what I was referring to in the previous post when I recommended looking at a European Commission report. It’s

This weekend, I received an email from an economist from a Triple AAA-rated Euro zone country in response to the

There have been a number of news stories in the past day or so (e.g. this one) which have noted

Nama Wine Lake asks “What did Michael Noonan get in return for an agreement which may leave this country stranded

This morning I attended a meeting of the Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to speak about

The excellent Seamus Coffey has a useful post on the implications of the Fiscal Compact rules for the ability of