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	<title>Banking Expert Peter Mathews on fixing Ireland&#039;s Banking Crisis</title>
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		<title>President can still pull off a ‘financial Dunkirk’</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/11/14/president-can-still-pull-off-a-%e2%80%98financial-dunkirk%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE NAMA Bill is essentially perhaps the most financially toxic piece of proposed legislation that has ever been presented to the Oireachtas.
Judging by the Dáil debate it is apparent that the nature, depth and extent of the banking sector’s perilous financial situation is just not properly understood by our politicians and even by some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=241&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abandon every hope, ye who enter here</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/11/13/abandon_hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rorourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reported today in the Irish Times:
The Minister for Finance this morning said he was not contemplating failure in the operation of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) following the passing of legislation to create it&#8230;
The Bill passed its final stage in the Dáil yesterday by 81 votes to 62.

My own reaction was somewhat more melodramatic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=225&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland&#8217;s National Loan Recovery Agency aka NAMA</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/11/08/lra-nama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be pleasant and cosy but innocent to accept that all the cash flow loans will be recovered 100%&#8230;.. If that was the case it would now be easy for the Banks to arrange a re-financing of those loans with other foreign Banks e.g. (HSBC that doesn&#8217;t have a capital problem) or to sell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=215&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The NAMA Bonanza &#8211; boNAMzA?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rorourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing my last post and thinking about Deputy McGrath&#8217;s political speak raised a couple of questions in my mind about the NAMA business plan and so I&#8217;ve gone back, yet again, to look at the numbers. I wanted to study closer the argument about the value of the underlying assets and their ability to cover [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=191&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>None so blind as they that won&#8217;t see</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/11/04/none-so-blind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rorourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Lady S. Not at all; but, you know, there&#8217;s none so blind as they that won&#8217;t see.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Dublin) A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires (1704)
For those of you who watched RTE&#8217;s Prime Time last night you will have seen what happens when a politician meets a banker. If you&#8217;d like to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=156&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where will the NAMA money go?</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/11/01/nama-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rorourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wondering if NAMA will help get liquidity back into the Irish economy, it&#8217;s primary purpose?
They say a picture paints a thousand words, but this one only paints one: NO.
Where will the NAMA money go?
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		<title>Dan Boyle&#8217;s Seanad Speech on NAMA</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/11/01/boyle-nama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rorourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Speech on National Asset Management Agency Business Plan &#8211; Seanad Éireann &#8211; October 29th, 2009

This debate is something of a cart before the horse exercise in that the National Asset Management Agency Bill will not come to this House until it has finished its passage through the other House, but it is useful in its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=141&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Wild Goose (chase)</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/10/30/another-wild-goosechase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this post from somewhere on the Irish Sea between Dublin and Holyhead.
For fear of doing a Declan Ganley on it, I won&#8217;t say it&#8217;s my last. But as I said to the taxi driver this morning as he dropped me to the ferry terminal, I&#8217;m looking forward to not thinking about NAMA for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=135&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leviathan indeed!</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/10/29/leviathan-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rorourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anger at last night&#8217;s political cabaret in Temple Bar, Leviathan, was palpable. And with my partiality clearly stated, the defenders of NAMA did not hold themselves to account well. The evening got off to an entertaining start, with the best of political satire as only the Irish know how, all resonating with the opinion that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=119&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NAMA &#8211; An Exercise in Obfuscation</title>
		<link>http://bankermathews.com/2009/10/28/nama-an-exercise-in-obfuscation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his public lecture in the RDS last week, Banking Expert, Peter Mathews, holds up a copy of the NAMA Bill and its Supplementary Information and highlights the lack of an overview as listed in the Table of Contents as occurring in &#8216;Section 5 Covered Institutions &#8211; An Overview&#8217; on page 33.

Peter has prepared the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankermathews.com&blog=9990809&post=114&subd=petermathews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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