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Costly Business: Privatisation and Exchequer Revenues
19/07/2010
Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves: The recent revelation that the government has established a group to report and advise on – among other things – …
Moody's downgrades - an investment upgrade required
Michael Burke 19/07/2010
Michael Burke: Moody's ratings' agency has just downgraded Irish government debt. The move brings it into line with the other agencies' assessments. …
Property Tax (Capital v Income)
Nat O'Connor 19/07/2010
Nat O'Connor: The Minister for Finance has rightly pointed out that any property tax - a tax on capital - must still be paid out of income (Irish …
China (II) - Investment in China
Paul Sweeney 18/07/2010
Paul Sweeney: Many thanks to all those who commented on the first post. A few responses are made by me on that post for those who are interested. …
What goes around the track comes off the track
Michael Taft 15/07/2010
Michael Taft: Remember a few months ago, when ICTU proposed postponing the target year for Maastricht compliance to 2017? There was a widespread …
Dezoning land, NAMA and adding locational value
Nat O'Connor 15/07/2010
Nat O'Connor: It was reported today that "the 40,000 hectares of land zoned for residential development across the country will be reduced to 12,000 …
One step forward, one step backward, one step sideways
Michael Taft 14/07/2010
Michael Taft: The ESRI’s Summer Quarterly Economic Quarterly is full of data for just about every perspective on the economy – from the optimist …
The future looks like the past
Michael Burke 14/07/2010
Michael Burke: The latest ESRI Quartely Report is just published. Coincidentally, it follows hard on the heels of a piece by Paul Krugman in the New …
Is Irish society being sacrificed to save the bond markets?
13/07/2010
Last week's lecture by Michael O'Sullivan, together with responses by Dr Mary Murphy of NUIM and ICTU General Secretary David Begg, is now available …
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Jim Stewart
Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …