Category: Economics


Time for Plan B?

16/01/2011

The euro area’s bail-out strategy is not working. It is time for insolvent countries to restructure their debts. You can read the rest of The …

Krugman's prescription for saving Europe

Tom McDonnell 13/01/2011

Tom McDonnell: Following on from Citigroup analysis of the Euro debt crisis earlier this week, here is an excellent analysis by Paul Krugman. Krugman …

Economic Treason

Nat O'Connor 12/01/2011

Nat O'Connor: Tags like 'Economic Treason' have been liberally applied since the outset of our economic and political crisis. Green Party …

Willem Buiter's analysis

Tom McDonnell 10/01/2011

Tom McDonnell: Willem Buiter says the key remaining question is whether it will be the banks who default, the Sovereign or both – and there is …

Breaking our arms

Michael Taft 06/01/2011

Michael Taft: Before we break our arms from patting ourselves on the back over our export growth, let’s take a fact break. Clearly, Irish exports …

Rebuilding the Economy

31/12/2010

Paul Sweeney and Danny McCoy (IBEC) present different views on rebuilding the economy in today's Irish Times, which is also the theme of today's …

How good is our export performance?

Rory O'Farrell 23/12/2010

Rory O'Farrell: The government's policy (its probably overly generous to call it a policy, more the rationale give for their various mistakes) is to …

Are Irish Managers up to the task?

21/12/2010

The Irish Times carries an interesting report on the mediocre performance of Irish management. This is consistent with previous reports (available …

Only growth can reduce the debt

Michael Burke 13/12/2010

Michael Burke: Over on Irish Ecoomy, Karl Whelan has initiated a useful discussion highlighting some of the differences between EU Commission and …

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