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Profits and austerity
Michael Burke 25/10/2011
Michael Burke: In all the discussion of the economy and the crisis, one word is hardly ever mentioned - profits. This piece looks at the level of …
Visualising the Contagion Machine
Tom McDonnell 24/10/2011
Tom McDonnell: The New York Times has put up a useful visualisation charting potential channels of contagion within the Euro zone. For a nice visual …
Ireland: export boom or import bust?
21/10/2011
Merijn Knibbe has an interesting post here on the Real World Economics Review blog - thanks to Michael Burke for the hat-tip.
Lender of Last Resort
Tom McDonnell 19/10/2011
Tom McDonnell: Bernard Delbecque proposes using the EFSF as a lender of last resort here. The ECB is the other plausible candidate. The lack of a …
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Tom McDonnell 19/10/2011
Tom McDonnell: Martin Wolf has an excellent and honest appraisal of the chances of the Euro crisis being successfully resolved in a way that is …
Presentations to 2011 FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference
18/10/2011
The 2011 FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference was held on Friday, October 14th, and Saturday October 15th. Videos of the event - including the closing keynote …
Second Republicans versus Banana Republicans
Tom McDonnell 13/10/2011
Tom McDonnell: The latest Dublin Review of Books is out and this time we have a contribution from the always cogent Michael O'Sullivan. It's well …
Investment denial and the new road map
Michael Taft 10/10/2011
Michael Taft: Colm McCarthy’s post on Irish Economy takes a sceptical look at ‘productive investment’, or more precisely, the Government’s …
Inequality and Budget 2012
Sinéad Pentony 10/10/2011
Sinéad Pentony: In the run up to Budget 2012, the discourse is going to be dominated by the scale of the fiscal adjustment (€3.6 billion) and the …
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