Category: Fiscal policy
Moody's downgrades - an investment upgrade required
Michael Burke 19/07/2010
Michael Burke: Moody's ratings' agency has just downgraded Irish government debt. The move brings it into line with the other agencies' assessments. …
Dezoning land, NAMA and adding locational value
Nat O'Connor 15/07/2010
Nat O'Connor: It was reported today that "the 40,000 hectares of land zoned for residential development across the country will be reduced to 12,000 …
One step forward, one step backward, one step sideways
Michael Taft 14/07/2010
Michael Taft: The ESRI’s Summer Quarterly Economic Quarterly is full of data for just about every perspective on the economy – from the optimist …
The future looks like the past
Michael Burke 14/07/2010
Michael Burke: The latest ESRI Quartely Report is just published. Coincidentally, it follows hard on the heels of a piece by Paul Krugman in the New …
Wages in the Crisis
Rory O'Farrell 10/07/2010
Rory O'Farrell: The European Trade Union Institute has brought out a working paper on the impact of the crisis on wages in Europe (this is perhaps …
GDP Growth and Government Policy
Nat O'Connor 08/07/2010
Nat O'Connor: The Minister for Finance is celebrating GDP growth of 2.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2010 as evidence of the success of …
What's €4 billion here or there?
Michael Taft 06/07/2010
Michael Taft: In all the discussion over the CSO’s recent National Accounts release for the first quarter this year – the one that shows that the …
No recovery yet - and debt deflation
Michael Burke 30/06/2010
Michael Burke: The Q1 real GDP figures show the economy expanding by 2.7%. No doubt these will be hailed as a turning-point, and even a vindication …
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