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Category: Fiscal policy

Using the recession as an opportunity for Irish economic development

Tom O'Connor 17/12/2009

Tom O'Connor: The ESRI expect national income GNP to fall by 9.4% overall in 2009, and by a further 1.8% in 2010, with growth returning in the last …

The Dutch experience

Michael Burke 17/12/2009

Michael Burke: There is a very useful post here on the reflationary policies in The Netherlands. The Dutch join a long list of European countries …

Budget 2010 will do nothing to get the economy out of recession

Tom O'Connor 10/12/2009

Tom O'Connor: Budget 2010 will cause immense hardship and will do nothing to get the economy out of recession. The four billion in savings could have …

Municipal bonds can help solve our funding problems

10/12/2009

This post has been written by Stephen Kinsella of the University of Limerick and Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers Problem: Cash strapped local …

Budget 2010: Multipliers not banished from Ireland

Michael Burke 10/12/2009

Michael Burke: The Budget contained no estimate as to the real cost, in terms of human misery, of the effects of the crisis to date and the …

Austerity and the financial markets

Michael Burke 09/12/2009

Michael Burke: Financial markets have a great many faults. But they can frequently provide a signal of their participants’ collective thinking with …

The economic crisis: some suggestions

Jim Stewart 06/12/2009

Jim Stewart: The economic crisis has revealed failures in many areas:- regulation, industrial policy, tax policy, corporate governance and planning. …

November tax figures - not as good as they seem

An tSaoi 04/12/2009

An Saoi: Newspaper headlines suggest that the decline in tax revenues is bottoming out, and indeed the November figures themselves look at first …

Current government policy is misguided

Jim Stewart 03/12/2009

Jim Stewart: The current stated policy of the Government is to reduce the fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP to 3% or under by 2014 (formerly …

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