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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 …

Deflation is no way to reduce debt

Slí Eile 20/06/2010

Slí Eile: The IIEA held an interesting seminar recently on sovereign debt. Here is the link. Ann Pettifor quoted Henry Liu: ‘“The young, the …

Appeasing the crazy

Michael Taft 20/06/2010

Michael Taft: Joseph Stiglitz, writing in the Sunday Tribune, warns against trying to reason with ‘markets’: ‘Appeasing the markets is like …

FT voices

Paul Sweeney 17/06/2010

Paul Sweeney: Following on from Michael Burke's link to Krugman on Tuesday, yesterday Martin Wolf of the Financial Times was quite unequivocal on the …

Krugman & lying eyes

Michael Burke 15/06/2010

Michael Burke: Paul Krugman, writing in the New York Times, asks whether fiscal austerity measures actually reassure the financial markets. This …

Revised rent supports

An tSaoi 13/06/2010

An Saoi: The Dept. of Social Protection (formerly Dept. of SFA) has finally announced the revised rent supports, effective from now until Secember …

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