Blog Archive
Back in recession
Tom Healy 22/03/2012
Tom Healy: While quarterly national accounts data are always to be taken with caution the latest CSO data clearly indicate a return to recession - …
Europe from the periphery
Paul Sweeney 21/03/2012
Paul Sweeney: These days, Europe appears to be a cold place viewed from the periphery in Ireland. We are being bailed out and supported in many ways …
Ireland's funding options: Time to end the 'race-to-disaster' debate
Michael Taft, Tom McDonnell 20/03/2012
Tom McDonnell & Michael Taft: Even before the wording has been published and a referendum date named there is one issue that looks set to …
Nama Wine Lake on the Promissory Notes
Tom McDonnell 20/03/2012
Tom McDonnell: Here is a timely recap by Nama Wine Lake of the grotesque farce that is the Anglo promissory note debacle.
Emigration a 'lifestyle choice'?
Tom Healy 17/03/2012
Tom Healy: Today's 'feel good' story in the Irish Times ran as 'Emigrants leaving by choice'. Nice to know that some people still have choices. …
The Alcohol Industry - A case study of health versus wealth
Nat O'Connor 16/03/2012
Nat O'Connor: The recently completed (Feb 2012) Steering Group Report On a National Substance Misuse Strategy has taken a public health approach to …
Oireachtas Dysfunction on Economic Policy?
15/03/2012
Paul Hunt (a regular commentator on PE) has written a lengthy analysis in the Dublin Review of Book linking the dysfunction of the Oireachtas with …
Cleaning up the debate
Michael Taft 13/03/2012
Michael Taft: In Saturday’s Irish Times Stephen Collins wrote: ‘Far from outlawing Keynesian economics, what the treaty seeks to do is to put an …
The referendum - what to do?
Jim Stewart 09/03/2012
Jim Stewart: The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance is flawed in many respects. Martin Wolf, writing in the Financial Times on 6th …
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