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Budget 2010 will do nothing to get the economy out of recession
Tom O'Connor 10/12/2009
Tom O'Connor: Budget 2010 will cause immense hardship and will do nothing to get the economy out of recession. The four billion in savings could have …
Municipal bonds can help solve our funding problems
10/12/2009
This post has been written by Stephen Kinsella of the University of Limerick and Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers Problem: Cash strapped local …
Budget 2010: Multipliers not banished from Ireland
Michael Burke 10/12/2009
Michael Burke: The Budget contained no estimate as to the real cost, in terms of human misery, of the effects of the crisis to date and the …
Budget 2010: the geographical impact
Michael Taft 10/12/2009
Michael Taft: The Ireland after Nama blog offers an alarming perspective on the effect of the public sector pay cuts on the econmic fortunes of …
Anglo-Irish bondholders + €4bn; Public Services - €4bn
Slí Eile 09/12/2009
Slí Eile: Budget 2010 has been well-rehearsed for many months. The Government, together with the media and principal political commentators, have …
Budget 2010: Live Blog
09/12/2009
Austerity and the financial markets
Michael Burke 09/12/2009
Michael Burke: Financial markets have a great many faults. But they can frequently provide a signal of their participants’ collective thinking with …
Some stories are too good for facts
Michael Taft 08/12/2009
Michael Taft: It’s good the administrators of this blog brought Peter Connell’s post back up to the top. Last night, Prime Time Investigates …
League tables and losing the plot
08/12/2009
This post was originally written on April 21st in response to an article in the Sunday Business Post. We are re-posting it following last night's …
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