Revenue Commissioners Annual Report

The 2015 Annual Report of the Revenue Commissioners is available here.

They also published a useful article by Paul Tancred on Corporation Tax receipts in 2014 and 2015.

Using Sports to teach Economics 101

UCC’s Robbie Butler talks to Frank Conway for the Economic Rockstar Podcast, hopefully embedded below.

Central Bank Annual Report

The 2015 Annual Report of the CBoI is available here.

There is lots in the report but one point that should be noted is that the €1.8 billion transfer from the Central Bank’s surplus to the Exchequer comes mainly from transactions with the Exchequer itself (interest income) and the NTMA (capital gains on bond sales) so is circular in nature.

Maintenance & Upgrade Time

The site will be down this coming Sunday morning  Saturday afternoon for maintenance and upgrading. After backing up the database, etc., we’ll be moving the design of the site to the Twenty Sixteen default, which is much better for viewing on phones, tablets, and other devices. We’ll also be adding more features for posters on data and images as well as other upgrades.

There will be more changes coming in the next few weeks, so please bear with us.

The State as Shadow Bank

Fascinating argument from Daniela Gabor and Jacob Vestergard here.