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David McWilliams - Q&A

Submitted by David McWilliams | Economist on Monday, 29 June 2009 | Category: General

David McWilliams has been asking difficult questions of some of the most influential and thought provoking characters of recent times, so we thought it would be interesting to turn the tables and invited you to put your questions to him. We were delighted with the response so thank you to everyone who sent in a question. We guessed he wouldn’t be short of a few words and we weren’t disappointed. Here’s what he had to say to your most popular questions.

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Who are they fooling? It’s not you, is it?

Submitted by Roel van Veggel | General Manager RaboDirect on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Category: Savings

Now that the dust around Irish banks seems to have settled a bit, I am amazed to see most of them go back to their old marketing behaviour. In particular, I’m referring to the addiction to and obsession with promotional rates. What’s that all about? I was triggered by several advertisements from one of our competitors recently offering 7% on a current account! Wow, sounds great doesn’t it? But is it really transparent?

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Fancy a word in David McWilliams' ear?

Submitted by Gina McCrudden | RaboDirect on Thursday, 4 June 2009 | Category:

In David McWilliams' own words ‘reputations are earned not bequeathed’ and he’s certainly earned his as a journalist, economist, author and more recently as a broadcaster and documentary maker. He’s probably best known for his early predictions of the economic boom made back in 1995 – an era we remember fondly as the Celtic Tiger and his early warnings of the Irish property market’s demise.

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