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IMF study indicates 6 billion cuts could risk over 20,000 jobs
Tom McDonnell 15/10/2010
Tom McDonnell: It is claimed in an IMF paper ('Will It Hurt? Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation') that fiscal consolidation measures can …
Impact of TASC Budget Proposals
Michael Burke 15/10/2010
Michael Burke: One of the strange features of the debate on the economy and government finances is that the consensus has solidified around further …
Realistic Fiscal Planning Requires Much More Budget Transparency
Nat O'Connor 14/10/2010
Nat O'Connor: The BBC reports (here) that in a rare public act, Communist Party elders in China has issued a call for increased free speech, which is …
Leo Varadkar and Capital Programme Stimulus
13/10/2010
Leo Varadkar has an interesting piece in the Sunday Business Post, available here. Basically he suggests that we get the fiscal changes over quickly …
Time to grow up and be angry
James Wickham 12/10/2010
James Wickham: Quite early in the crisis, Colm McCarthy remarked that ‘anger is not policy’ (Frontline 28 September 2009). As others have …
Just how much is enough?
Slí Eile 10/10/2010
Slí Eile: Just how much deflation and for how long must it be applied to (i) secure market confidence 'going forward' and (ii) reduce the fiscal …
All pain, no gain, no gain at all
Michael Taft 08/10/2010
Michael Taft: No doubt the Government will blame the need for increased contraction through a multi-annual budget on the banking crisis. There …
One of the most catastrophic political decisions in post-war Europe?
08/10/2010
Writing on the Eurointelligence blog, Financial Times columnist Wolfgang Munchau says that: "[...] on Tuesday, 30 September 2008, when Brian Cowen, …
Benefitting all the children equally
07/10/2010
In an Irish Times 'Double Vision' piece with Friends First economist Jim Power, TASC Head of Policy Sinéad Pentony argues this morning that the …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
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Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …