Peter Sutherland and Fintan O’Toole disagree.  Peter Sutherland’s FT article is here; Fintan O’Toole’s IT article is here.  [Reminder - my own op-ed from a while back is here; while my DEW slides are here.] Fintan O’Toole arg…

Barry Eichengreen and I provide an update to our original Vox column here.

Eamon Quinn reports on an interesting interview in this Dow Jones piece.

The Sunday Business Post published an opinion piece of mine on the eurozone crisis yesterday under this title. As its content seems to have disappeared behind a paywall, I attach the piece here.  Angela Merkel’s recent reflections on the future of E…

Here are some comments on the reported letter of the Bundesbank president to Mario Draghi.  The blog software is objecting to posts longer than a couple of paragraphs, so for now I’ll just post links to files hosted on my own website. Update: Here i…

The WSJ carries an interesting report on how multi-country banking groups are using LTRO to ring fence affiliates in troubled economies (including Ireland), in order to limit the exposure of parent banks.

Some of the Central Bank’s main contributors to Friday’s SME conference report on how debt overhang is constraining bank lending to SMEs in this VOX article.

Colm takes a realpolitik look at the fiscal treaty in the Sindo today, and takes aim at the ECB and EU Commission towards the end. He argues that despite the treaty’s many flaws we should vote for it. From the piece: Opposition parties appear to be …

Here is the European Commission’s report.

A reader recommends this briefing paper.