Category: Economics
Anthony Leddin on Ireland's export competitiveness
Proinnsias Breathnach 16/11/2010
Proinnsias Breathnach: Last Friday’s Irish Times (November 12) contained an article by Dr Anthony Leddin, Head of the Department of Economics at …
Ireland's forgotten deficit
Rory O'Farrell 12/11/2010
Rory O'Farrell: What is the bottom line for the Irish economy? It is well known that the economic bubble was inflated by borrowed money, largely in …
Running out of logic
Michael Burke 11/11/2010
Michael Burke: The Finance Minister's statement that, if the government's Budget is not passed the country will run out of money, has been examined …
Ireland will not run out of money if the December Budget fails
Nat O'Connor 10/11/2010
Nat O'Connor: The front page of The Irish Times runs with the Taoiseach claiming that if the Budget is not passed, the country will run out of money. …
2011, 2014, the Bond Markets and Growth
Nat O'Connor 05/11/2010
Nat O'Connor: It seems to me that there is some confusion in the way in which international factors on Ireland's deficit are presented to the general …
They didn't even number the pages
Michael Taft 05/11/2010
Michael Taft: Let me see if I get this. The Government produces a new set of projections yesterday in their Economic and Budgetary Outlook (a new …
A better way
Michael Burke 04/11/2010
Michael Burke: As the population braces itself for another round of swingeing cuts, the government and the overwhelming majority of the media …
View from the front line: impacts of cuts to community employment
04/11/2010
Guest post by Dr Rory Hearne In an effort to highlight what are the potential real human and economic impacts of some of the proposed December budget …
ICTU's Pre-Budget submission
Paul Sweeney 03/11/2010
Paul Sweeney: Congress has warned that a continuation of the current austerity programme could literally destroy the Irish economy and kill off any …
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