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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 …
The latest installment of Euro crisis
Slí Eile 28/07/2011
Slí Eile: Reactions to last week's Euro summit conclusions have been generally positive with much focus - at least in the Irish media - on the …
Questions that should be put to the Minister
Michael Taft 27/07/2011
Michael Taft: The Cabinet has approved the interim Household Charge of €100, designed to ‘raise’ €160 million from 1.8 million households. …
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Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …