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A picture paints a thousand essays
Michael Taft 07/06/2011
Michael Taft: After all the arguments, tables, charts and footnotes, sometimes it takes just a picture to tell it as it really is. Courtesy of Mark …
Believing in fairies
Slí Eile 05/06/2011
Slí Eile: While columnist Breda O'Brien may not be everyone's cuppa tea I suspect that contributors to this board will give at least 9 out of 10 for …
May is a wicked month
An tSaoi 04/06/2011
An Saoi: The tax figures were released with a range of different views expressed. Read Dan O'Brien as an example of the general tenor of comment. …
Guest post by Arthur Doohan: The burning of the bondholders
Arthur Doohan 02/06/2011
Arthur Doohan: There is something of a scramble to jump onto the bandwagon of those seeking to attend the 'burning of the bondholders'. What could …
Martin Wolf's Intolerable Choices for the Eurozone
02/06/2011
Martin Wolf provides a timely analysis of the Eurozone's options. Wolf argues that ultimately the Eurozone faces a choice between default and partial …
A Marie Antoinette moment
01/06/2011
"Marie Antoinette's infamous response to the news of bread riots prior to the French Revolution, "Let them eat cake", may be apocryphal but it …
Why are businesses going out of business?
Michael Taft 01/06/2011
Michael Taft: To listen to employers’ groups and Minister Bruton, you’d think that businesses are going out of business because the lowest paid …
Wage-setting mechanisms: statement by 36 economists, analysts and social scientists
31/05/2011
“We broadly welcome the Report of the Independent Review of Employment Regulation Orders and Registered Employment Agreement Wage-Setting …
Economics or politics? The longer game
Tom McDonnell 30/05/2011
Tom McDonnell: The reported decision to go well beyond the recommendations of the Duffy-Walsh report, coupled with the tax cutting emphasis of the …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …