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No recovery yet - and debt deflation

Michael Burke 30/06/2010

Michael Burke: The Q1 real GDP figures show the economy expanding by 2.7%. No doubt these will be hailed as a turning-point, and even a vindication …

Prices and profiteering in the food sector

Michael Taft 30/06/2010

Michael Taft: There will be many attempts to explain the high costs of food and beverages in Ireland – a state of affairs that is hardly new. …

More of the same

Michael Burke 29/06/2010

Michael Burke: There has been much discussion about the ESRI's view that Ireland will eventually recover to have a stronger growth rate than most …

There's got to be someone to blame

Slí Eile 28/06/2010

Slí Eile: The Department of Finance has come in for increased criticism and attention in recent times. Periodically, Eddie Molloy has written about …

The Black Dog

28/06/2010

Paul Krugman in the NYT yesterday thinks the non-event at Toronto has condemned us to a depression, only the third in the history of capitalism, and …

Thinking outside the box on stage

Slí Eile 24/06/2010

Slí Eile: Who said that the Dismal Science is not sometimes dismal? David McWilliams is providing a highly enjoyable, informative, provocative and …

Portable Mortgages

Nat O'Connor 22/06/2010

Nat O'Connor: Two contradictory pieces in the news about mortgages. On the one hand, it was reported that some lenders are preparing to offer …

City 44

21/06/2010

Nat O'Connor In its 2008 Index of Global Cities, Foreign Policy ranked Dublin 44 out of the top 60 'global' cities on the planet (specific article …

The urgent priorities

Michael Taft 21/06/2010

Michael Taft: Professor Ray Kinsella, a leading light in common sense economics, put it this way on Saturday View: ‘The economic strategy upon …

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