Category: Economics
We need to rethink macroeconomics
Slí Eile 18/02/2010
Slí Eile: In a paper by staff of the International Monetary Fund (Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy) authors Olivier Blanchard, Giovanni …
Your Country Your Call
Nat O'Connor 18/02/2010
Nat O'Connor: In the spirit of Kennedy, asking us to think of what we can do for our country, President McAleese has launched a national competition: …
“…all of the adjustments are being done to impress the rating agencies and international capital markets….”
Slí Eile 15/02/2010
Slí Eile: So writes Michael Casey, former chief economist with the Central Bank and currently board member of the International Monetary Fund. He …
Competitiveness myths ...
15/02/2010
"There is a real danger that, encouraged by the economists’ chorus on the need to cut costs as the way to get us out of our current economic …
With friends like these (once more on Greece)
Michael Burke 13/02/2010
Michael Burke: There are widespread reports including here, that the meeting of European Finance Ministers will agree to a series of measures aimed …
How fortunate to have avoided such disaster
Michael Taft 12/02/2010
Michael Taft: Pat McArdle celebrates the fact that the Fianna Fail government has taken up the austerity cudgels: ‘With hindsight, we were …
A pessimistic Stiglitz
12/02/2010
Today's Guardian carries a deeply pessimistic interview with Joseph Stiglitz, who notes that "Plans to re-regulate the financial markets have run …
Falling prices and low-income households
12/02/2010
"Price deflation for low income families will be experienced at the lower rate of 2.2% and will do little to compensate for the real drop in incomes …
A disastrous approach to disaster capitalism
Colm O'Doherty 09/02/2010
Colm O'Doherty: The captivation of our Fianna Fail-led government by the Milton Friedman /Chicago School policy trinity of privatization, government …
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