Category: Banking and finance
Banking inquiry: Guest post by Pat Rabbitte TD
26/01/2010
Over the next week, progressive-economy@TASC will be carrying a series of guest posts by party spokespersons on the banking inquiry. The first post …
The Division of Power Requires Stronger Accountability Institutions
Nat O'Connor 20/01/2010
Nat O'Connor: Many current news stories are about accountability, either seeking it or the lack of it. In some cases, there is a clear public …
Guest post by Rory O'Farrell: Gombeens and Gosplan
Rory O'Farrell 19/01/2010
Rory O'Farrell: Much as the economy of the Soviet Union was criticized for having a bloated economic planning bureaucracy (Gosplan), the Irish …
Stuff happens ...
15/01/2010
As the idea of a banking enquiry gains traction here in Ireland with both the Government and the Opposition, the Financial Crisis Enquiry Commission …
Lobbying and de-regulation: an IMF view
Paul Sweeney 12/01/2010
Paul Sweeney: The IMF – not known as a progressive organisation – recently published a research paper which showed that those US financial …
1,406 reasons to change course
Michael Burke 04/01/2010
Michael Burke: The number of corporate insolvencies in Ireland has soared to 1,406 in 2009, according to InsovencyJournal.ie. This exceeds the level …
IFSRA: The financial regulator which failed
Anon 02/01/2010
Anon: On January 1st 2010, we saw how the basic philosophy of IFSRA, and the key people, seemed to be informed by the philosophy of “free” …
Paying the price of poor regulation in Banking
Anon 01/01/2010
Anon: Morgan Kelly’s UCD paper on the Irish Bubble reproduced here on 29th December is a chilling view of the kind of policies which nearly brought …
The Irish Credit Bubble
Slí Eile 29/12/2009
Slí Eile: Here is a link to an interesting paper by economist Morgan Kelly at UCD.
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