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Why cuts are the wrong cure
Slí Eile 05/12/2010
Slí Eile: With less than 48 hours to go to the Budget we would do well to pause and think about the drive to cut more and more and to compound our …
Is high income tax bad for the economy?
Proinnsias Breathnach 04/12/2010
Proinnsias Breathnach: In the debate over the extent to which the Irish government should resort to tax increases or expenditure cuts in correcting …
The €67.5 (not €85) billion bailout
Jim Stewart 02/12/2010
Jim Stewart: Whatever the Taoiseach thought he was doing at the press conference last Sunday) in announcing the EU/IMF net loans to Ireland of …
Memorandum of Understanding
Slí Eile 01/12/2010
Slí Eile: These days a new Report arrives every few days. The EU/IMF Memorandum of Understanding available here carries a text in bold red on the …
Ireland's 'Inability to Pay' 5.8 Percent
Nat O'Connor 01/12/2010
Nat O'Connor: The interest rate on the EFSF loan is to be 5.8 per cent (on average). Can Ireland afford this? Professor Morgan Kelly of UCD wrote an …
Time up on the tax scam
James Wickham 01/12/2010
James Wickham: One of the bizarre features of current Irish politics is the way in which national independence, national sovereignty and even …
Countering left-wing ideology
Slí Eile 30/11/2010
Slí Eile: It may have come to the attention of readers of this blog-site that contributors are ideologically of the left espousing solutions and …
Michael Burke in the Guardian: who's being bailed out?
29/11/2010
Somewhat belated, but here is a link to PE blogger Michael Burke's opinion piece in Saturday's Guardian newspaper.
Ireland, bond markets and democracy
29/11/2010
"Making the “market” the actor abstracts from the real world of speculators and financial fraud. It facilitates the mythology that the …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …