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Is Ireland heading into a slowdown, too?

Michael Taft 11/08/2011

Michael Taft: The global recovery is now expected to ease off in the latter half of this year with a range of data suggesting a slowdown in the …

Inequality and the UK Riots

Aoife Ní Lochlainn 10/08/2011

Aoife Ní Lochlainn: Amongst the acres of news coverage devoted to the UK riots, comes an interesting piece of work in the Guardian, ‘Mapping the …

A long malaise

Michael Taft 10/08/2011

Michael Taft: With years of austerity ahead, resulting in weak growth and high unemployment, freezing interest rates and another round of …

Different takes ...

09/08/2011

These two posts from Social Europe Journal are worth a read. George Irwin bemoans the lack of progressive political leadership, while Zygmunt Baumann …

Enjoy this weekend if you can

Slí Eile 05/08/2011

Slí Eile: New research on what might make for happy weekends here !

Panic on world markets

Michael Burke 05/08/2011

Michael Burke: International business news and other TV channels are offering a Babel-like interpretation of the current slump in world financial …

Stiglitz on a 'contagion of bad ideas'

05/08/2011

"The Great Recession of 2008 has morphed into the North Atlantic Recession: it is mainly Europe and the United States, not the major emerging …

Education cutbacks bad for economy

Sinéad Pentony 04/08/2011

Sinéad Pentony: Today’s news that class sizes are set to increase highlights the shortsightedness of responses to the fiscal crisis. As in many …

Time to start working on Plan B

Michael Taft 03/08/2011

Michael Taft: The recent Central Bank quarterly report confirms (as if we needed confirmation) that the economy remains in slow bleed mode. That they …

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