Blog Archive

Lies, damned lies and statistics: car scrappage scheme

An tSaoi 04/02/2010

An Saoi: On Tuesday morning Alan Nolan of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry was on Morning Ireland and made reference to the increase in car …

Where have all the taxes gone?

An tSaoi 02/02/2010

An Saoi: Today’s tax figures were a shock, even to me. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised as the Central Bank’s report for December had …

McCarthy on fiscal correction - advice to Scotland

Slí Eile 02/02/2010

Slí Eile: Never shy to expound, economist Colm McCarthy, of Bord Snip fame imparted wit and neo-liberal orthodoxy last week in Edinburgh. See an …

Greek Tragedy II - and the tax dimension

Michael Burke 02/02/2010

Michael Burke: In today's Financial Times, two economists from the Breugel think-tank in Brussels argue that the best course for Greece is to call in …

Taxbreak hotels

Sinéad Pentony 02/02/2010

Sinéad Pentony: The report by Peter Bacon on the Irish Hotel Industry highlights the sorry state of the industry, which has been insolvent since …

AIB makes case for increased public spending

Peter Connell 02/02/2010

Peter Connell: Encouraging news from AIB. In its Economic Outlook for 2010 published last month the bank agrees with many of those writing on PE on …

...but what kind of capitalism do we want?....

Slí Eile 01/02/2010

Slí Eile: Speaking, last week, at the World Economic Forum (WEF at Davos), French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in big picture mode discussing the …

Banking Inquiry - could the UK Iraq Inquiry act as a model?

Gan Ainm 01/02/2010

gan ainm: Pat Rabbitte’s post on the Banking Inquiry is most welcome. There are many angles which need to be covered, and obfuscation by some …

Banking Inquiry: Guest post by Arthur Morgan TD

Arthur Morgan 01/02/2010

Arthur Morgan: Sinn Féin believes that such is the scale of the banking crisis that nothing short of full public scrutiny is acceptable. The …

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