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Eurozone Failures - Time for Eurobonds and a Radical Rethink
Tom McDonnell 20/05/2011
Tom McDonnell: Two quick links: Guillermo De La Dehesa of CEPR has put together a very useful one-pager that should be mandatory reading for the …
The economic consequences of the ECB - "an unrepayable debt is an unrepayable debt"
Tom McDonnell 19/05/2011
Tom McDonnell: It seems the war dogs of the ECB have threatened to cut off Greece’s access to liquidity if it defaults. Jean-Claude Trichet even …
TASC launches discussion paper on debt and banking crisis
19/05/2011
TASC today launched a discussion paper by TASC policy analyst (and PE blogger) Tom McDonnell, The Debt and Banking Crisis: Progressive Approaches for …
Don't frighten the chislers
Slí Eile 16/05/2011
Slí Eile: The article is picking up a lot of hits over on journal.ie here.tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
Social Justice Ireland
Slí Eile 16/05/2011
Slí Eile: Some strong and clear messages emerge from Social Justice Ireland in its latest Socio-Economic Review. It makes the case that: 'It is …
Paying for the Jobs Initiative
Gerard Hughes 16/05/2011
Gerry Hughes: In 1988, in the middle of Ireland’s last economic crisis, the Minister for Finance in the Fianna Fáil Government, Ray McSharry, …
The proposed levy on pension funds
Jim Stewart 14/05/2011
Jim Stewart: The levy on pension funds makes economic sense, but it has been very poorly presented, and it is inequitable in its proposed from. The …
Options on default
Tom O'Connor 12/05/2011
Tom O'Connor: Doomsday scenarios have been painted recently by Prof. Morgan Kelly and others concerning the need to abandon to EU/IMF deal on the one …
A chink of light ...
Michael Burke 11/05/2011
Michael Burke: In the furore about the recent Morgan Kelly article in the Irish Times, in which he advocates a debt default, there has been very …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
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Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …