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Where are all the (cash) savings going?
An tSaoi 04/11/2009
An Saoi: Hidden inside the Central Bank’s monthly statistical reports is an analysis of household cash holdings in banks and credit unions (Table …
Public intellectuals and the crisis
Slí Eile 03/11/2009
Slí Eile: ‘We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.’ (Einstein) In an excellent piece in last …
'Cut Deep, Cut Now and Keep on Cutt'n'
Slí Eile 02/11/2009
Slí Eile: The cage was truly rattled, today, by David Blanchflower, UK economist, who challenged the home consensus about deflation. Speaking at the …
Ignorance is not strength
Michael Taft 01/11/2009
Michael Taft: I would say this debate is turning for the worse, but that would be incorrect. You need to have two sides in a debate. All we get is an …
Recovery is not reform
01/11/2009
Recovery is not reform. The government’s intended path to recovery is a mixture of borrowing, pay cuts, and spending cuts. All recovery plans treat …
Wealthy Germans Call for Wealth Tax
Nat O'Connor 30/10/2009
Nat O'Connor: The BBC reports that "A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher …
Its OK to borrow off-sheet when it comes to NAMA
Slí Eile 29/10/2009
Slí eile: When it comes to sorting out banking and keeping risk to under 5% for bondholders, there is nothing to beat a bit of creative accounting …
Controversies over speed of fiscal adjustment
Slí Eile 28/10/2009
Slí Eile: A recent paper by John Fitzgerald of the ESRI (‘Fiscal Policy for Recovery’) indicates the scale of challenge facing public finances …
The many-legged Irish Recession
28/10/2009
"The Irish economy certainly is in a recession and, by the rule-of-thumb definition, we’re in a depression. The economy will fall by more than 10% …
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Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …