Who Holds Irish Government Bonds?

New Central Bank dataset here.

George Osborne: What the Economic Pessimists Are Missing

WSJ op-ed here.

Franklin Templeton and Ukraine

The FT covers its large bond position in Ukraine here.

IMF 2014 Spring Meetings

The three major reports have tons of interesting material

Philippe Legrain on the so-called “banking union”

Calling something a banking union does not make it so; Philippe Legrain joins the ranks of people like Colm McCarthy and Wolfgang Münchau pointing out that this is an emperor without clothes.