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		<title>We must heed banking warning</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/07/we-must-heed-banking-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 25 July 2010  
By Kathleen Barringtom
Imagine if a public health doctor visited your local school and said he found your children were displaying a set of symptoms generally regarded as predictors of a very serious illness or even death within three years, what would you do?Would you whisk your children down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take commission out of the picture</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/07/take-commission-out-of-the-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 04 July 2010 
By Kathleen Barrington
It is just a year since the Financial Services Authority in Britain announced it was set to ban commission-based financial advice in a move that was seen as sounding the death-knell for the old style financial adviser industry.There has since been no sign that the FSA is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit unions wary of regulator&#8217;s plan</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/06/credit-unions-wary-of-regulators-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 27 June 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
The President of the Irish League of Credit Unions is heading to the World Council of Credit Unions conference in Las Vegas next month. Mark Bailey, and the five other league officials who will accompany him on the trip, wouldn’t dream of betting credit union funds on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros urges more regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 20 June 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Financier George Soros gave an interesting speech earlier this month in which he offered advice on the lessons to be learned from the global financial crisis.Many of these will resonate with observers of the Irish banking crash.The man who famously broke the Bank of England earning an estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cowen’s Act fuelled banks’ folly</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/06/cowen%e2%80%99s-act-fuelled-banks%e2%80%99-folly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 13 June 2010  
By Kathleen Barrington
Just before the general election of May 2007, the then finance minister Brian Cowen rushed through legislation which enabled mortgage lenders to raise even more funds on international markets to fuel their reckless lending spree.In February 2007,Cowen published legislation which he then said ‘‘helps provide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe’s banks may be coming close to another liquidity crisis</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/06/europe%e2%80%99s-banks-may-be-coming-close-to-another-liquidity-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 06 June 2010 
By Kathleen Barrington
At a time when investors in Bank of Ireland are considering whether to exercise their rights to buy shares in the troubled bank by Tuesday’s deadline, it is worth bearing in mind that some global investors still reckon that European banks, including ours, will face another liquidity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Australian lesson in insurance company failure</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/05/an-australian-lesson-in-insurance-company-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 30 May 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
In the autumn of 2008, a London-based insurance underwriter told me that Quinn Insurance would face difficulties because it was under-pricing the risks it was writing in the British and Irish insurance markets. In plain English, he reckoned that Quinn Insurance wasn’t charging consumers and businesses enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth-seekers are left to whistle down the wind for real protection</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/05/truth-seekers-are-left-to-whistle-down-the-wind-for-real-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 23 May 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
It was interesting to see James Hamilton, the Director of Public Prosecutions, calling for the introduction of a whistleblowers’ charter last week &#8211; less than three years after the Company Law Reform Group rejected a similar proposal.Hamilton said it was time to examine the issue because, in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norris raises red flag at IFSC</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/05/norris-raises-red-flag-at-ifsc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business & Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 16 May 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
There has been surprisingly little media attention given to a ‘‘grossly serious matter’’ raised by Senator David Norris relating to liquidity breaches at the Irish operations of a leading European bank. It is believed that the scale of the alleged 2007 breaches was so great that it left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FF’s flawed ideology is laid bare</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/05/ff%e2%80%99s-flawed-ideology-is-laid-bare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Barrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From kathleen barrington: 09 May 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
There are many ways in which politicians try to deceive voters and the markets that finance the voters’ lifestyles.The Greeks deliberately hid the scale of their public sector borrowing through the use of off balance sheet financing.The British refused to discuss the deficit with the electorate ahead of [...]]]></description>
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