Category: Economics
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 …
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 …
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. …
Enclave-led recovery
Michael Taft 20/07/2011
Michael Taft:The Enterprise Minister was extremely upbeat about the recent CSO report that the trade surplus had grown. Mind you, it was not due to …
Plan A for austerity; Plan D for default and devaluation
Slí Eile 18/07/2011
Slí Eile: Events are moving fast on the European monetary plains. Suddenly, various 'unthinkables' are being mentioned as real possibilities rather …
Why Irish debt is cut to junk status
Michael Burke 13/07/2011
Michael Burke: Moody’s is the first of the credit ratings agencies to cut Irish government debt to below investment grade – the sovereign debt is …
Trapped in an analytical prison
Michael Taft 07/07/2011
Michael Taft: Seamus Coffey has written a provocative post over at Irish Economy on the recent Exchequer statement, showing that Government borrowing …
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