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Fergal O’Connor

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Financial Economics UCC, Economics of Precious metals and Beer, Munster Rugby and Kerry Football

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · Feb 20

Just Published: The Efficiency of the London Gold Fixing:
from #gold standard to hoarded commodity (1919-1968). Paper shows the daily price of gold in London for the first time and discusses the 4 phases of this market: 2 Free markets and 2 Gold Standard periods. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The efficiency of the London Gold Fixing: from gold standard to hoarded commodity (1919–1968) | Financial History Review | Cambridge Core

The efficiency of the London Gold Fixing: from gold standard to hoarded commodity (1919–1968)

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s Finale comes from @seanekh.bsky.social and Alan de Bromhead in a paper “Restoration and Revival: Accounting for Regional Industrial Growth 1980-2006”.

Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Paper 7 on “Irish Industrial Policy and Irish Economic Development: 1952-72” presented by Dr. Alan de Bromhead @ucddublin.bsky.social, written with @seanekh.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Paper 6 by Dr. Ella Kavanagh @ucc.ie presents research on “Monetary Analysis, Monetary Policy and the Irish Central Bank (1946-68)”

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Comments on the Bank Strike paper by Prof. Cormac Ó’Grádá @ucd.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Paper 5 is presented by Jason Lennard @lseechist.bsky.social “Banks and the Economy: Evidence from the Irish Bank Strike of 1966” showing evidence on the impact of banks on an economy with @seanekh.bsky.social and Emma Horgan @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Comments on the paper provided by former governor of the Irish Central Bank Prof. Patrick Honohan @tcddublin.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

@seanekh.bsky.social’s @ucc.ie paper presents a new improved Quarterly Irish GDP series from 1950, written with @rebstuart.bsky.social, as part of this @researchireland.ie pathways project on “External Shocks and Fiscal Sustainability”

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Paper 3 presented by @profjohnturner.bsky.social on speculation in the UK between 1785-2019, with William Quinn and Clive Walker @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

Paper two presented by Emma Horgan @ucc.ie Discusses the effect of uncertainty on a range of newly constructed historical data series from 1945, paper with @seanekh.bsky.social and @a-fergal.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 5d

@eoinaldo.bsky.social kicks of the Irish Macrohist workshop 2025 in @ucc.ie “Explaining the retreat of the Irish Language Fronteir”, paper with @cliochris.bsky.social and Alan Fernihough

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 6d

You mean the play I’m sure.

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Eoin McLaughlin @eoinaldo.bsky.social · 7d

Manuscript done ✅ Off to production at Bloomsbury!

The book revisits Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250, rethinking prosperity through inclusive wealth & sustainability

More soon… 📖✨

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 9d

I’m granny celebrate the end of Michaelmas term.

Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 13d

Who had also been educated and given health care.

Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 13d

That is an awesome response 😆

Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 13d

When I moved to the uk for 8 years I had not cost the uk taxpayer a penny to that point. Every British person starting their first job I worked with had, through schooling and the NHS. I was an immediately profitable taxpayer. You have it backwards 8 afraid.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 19d

There’s nothing new under the sun, just a repeat of the dot comm #bubble and the south sea bubble and many many more. Dot com was “don’t value by earnings value by clicks to the website” etc.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19d

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters.
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

Wall Street Journal: Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment
Tech leaders at WSJ’s Technology Council Summit said it’s nearly impossible to measure the impact of AI on business productivity. And when we try, we’re measuring it wrong.
By Belle Lin and Steven Rosenbush
Sept. 16, 2025 9:33 pm ET

Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 20d

This is an example of a chart that should not be in log scale. Distorts the achievement.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just tried this - ranks people you don't follow but are followed by people you do bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

Bluesky Network Analyzer

Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.

bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two articles in the @financialtimes.com in one day about #gold is not a positive indicator for financial markets or the economy going forward.

Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · Aug 21

The tie up we didn’t want, but do deserve.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Aug 12

BREAKING: New BLS Leader EJ Antoni Proposes To Pause Monthly Jobs Data Reports 📝🇺🇸

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · Jul 27

a group of minions are standing next to each other and laughing while wearing goggles .

ALT: a group of minions are standing next to each other and laughing while wearing goggles .

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · Jul 14

Deleting apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (Being fostered by a 3,000 year old half-elf m, so I can get him to agree that if I can unite the two ancient kingdoms of the men of the West, I can marry his 1,000 year old daughter who is kind of my great(x150) aunt)

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Jul 14

Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (seduced by an immortal count after he saw a photograph of an employee’s fiancée)

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Jul 14

Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (marrying an annoying clergyman because the alternative is financial instability)