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IMF chief warns on exit strategy

Michael Burke 23/11/2009

Michael Burke: Report in the Financial Times, Monday November 23: "'Economic stimulus programmes, including those in the UK, should not be withdrawn …

Deal fairly and immediately with the fiscal crises

Slí Eile 19/11/2009

Slí Eile: The fiscal deficit mirrors at least two other deficits -a deficit in non-Government investment and spending and a deficit in social …

Its all down to political choices informed by values

Slí Eile 16/11/2009

Slí Eile: We are in the midst of a global, European and national crisis – economically, politically and morally. Decisions made in the coming days …

The future just got worse

Michael Taft 12/11/2009

Michael Taft: The EU Commission has announced that Ireland will get an extension to the target date for return to Maastricht compliance. Instead of …

Home truths from abroad

Michael Burke 11/11/2009

Michael Burke: It’s in the nature of a globalised economy that all economies tend to exhibit a specific combination of global trends. For a small …

'O make me a Keynesian (but not yet)' ?

Slí Eile 09/11/2009

Slí Eile: The entry by UK economist David Blanchflower into the domestic economic debate (re-flation versus deflation) created a stir last week. For …

Are we going too far?

08/11/2009

Last week, on PE, guest blogger Michael Burke, in a post entitled Why is the Rest of the World out of Step with Ireland?, made the case for a …

The Moral Basis for Taxation

Nat O'Connor 06/11/2009

Nat O'Connor: Do progressive economists have a shared belief in the moral basis for taxation? Let me start by referencing Daniel J. Mitchell's 2006 …

Guest post by Niall Douglas: Tax Sin, Never Good

06/11/2009

Following TASC's Autumn Conference in October, we have been carrying an occasional series of guest posts from some of the attendees. This is the …

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