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Finance History 2010-11-22 (22 November 2010 ) |
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| Following are highlights of quotes from Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan and opposition spokesman Michael Noonan on Monday on state broadcaster RTE. | |
| Ireland's finance minister said Sunday that he would back a move to ask the international community for tens of billions of euros in loans and guarantees to keep his country's crisis-hit finances afloat. | |
| DUBLIN -- European finance ministers were holding an urgent conference call to discuss ways of relieving Ireland's debt crisis Sunday night, after the country became the second European nation to ask for a multibillion euro rescue loan to help stabilize its debt-ridden banks. | |
| Finance minister to recommend request for financial assistance from EU and IMF at emergency cabinet meeting in Dublin. | |
| Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said he would recommend to a cabinet meeting Sunday that the government should apply for a financial bailout programme from the EU and the IMF. | |
| Finance Minister Brian Lenihan confirmed on Sunday that Ireland will ask international lenders for help and that he will present the plan to cabinet later in the day at a meeting to approve a four-year austerity programme. | |
| CONSUMER FINANCE: Retailers Aim Deals Through Smartphones | |
| CONSUMER FINANCE: Retailers Offer Early Holiday Bargains | |
| LUNENBURG -- The Finance Committee is recommending a compromise to the Police Department's request for three patrol cars that will instead fund two cruisers with just the basic delivery package, Vice Chairman Marilyn Stokes said Friday. | |
| Political parties have finally reached a consensus on electoral finance laws with both sides compromising on public disclosure of donations and spending caps on lobby Minister Simon Power yesterday announced changes... |
Economic History|
| The economy will remain sluggish early next year as the lingering effects of the recession continue to drag on growth and the benefit of government stimulus fades, a panel of professional forecasters said Monday. | |
| A gauge of future economic activity grew in October after a summer lull, suggesting the . economy may slowly start strengthening early next year. | |
| The global initiative to eradicate polio could provide net benefits of billions. | |
| Economists say unemployment, debt will hamper growth through 2011 | |
| ( Kid Risk, Inc. ) A new study estimates that the global polio eradication initiative could provide net benefits of $40-50 billion, compared to a policy relying on routine vaccination alone. Analysis suggests the GPEI is an excellent investment from an economic perspective and highlights the importance of achieving eradication faster. The study, published in Vaccine, estimates the GPEI will ... | |
| Gauti B. Eggertsson of the New York Fed and Paul Krugman of Princeton have published an important paper modeling what happens to an economy at the end of a debt binge - and in a post at VoxEU, Krugman explains the policy implications. On the Atlanta Fed's blog, check out a helpful explanation fro... | |
| Based on the economic facts at hand ? and not counting for possible financial shocks ? a Yale economist says President Obama may be easily re-elected. | |
| Thailand?s economy grew at the slowest pace in three quarters as exports eased and agriculture declined, prompting the government to predict the central bank will refrain from raising interest rates for the next year. | |
| By ANTHONY HALL United Press International The short list of European countries flailing on their own became shorter over the weekend with Ireland relenting to pressure to accept a bailout loan. | |
| It's official. The Great Recession helped stave off climate change. Or at least reduced the ongoing increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Based on energy consumption statistics from various nations, scientists estimate that global CO2 emissions dropped by percent in 2009. But that still made them the second highest ever--just behind 2008. [More] |
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