Category: Inequality


Listening to common sense

Slí Eile 18/12/2010

Slí Eile: Sometimes we don't like listening to one of our own. Hence, expertise from outside is used to reassure us. Take David McWilliams. The …

Only growth can reduce the debt

Michael Burke 13/12/2010

Michael Burke: Over on Irish Ecoomy, Karl Whelan has initiated a useful discussion highlighting some of the differences between EU Commission and …

TASC analysis of Budget 2011

09/12/2010

TASC has issued its analysis of Budget 2011; you can download a PDF of the document here. Comments?

The €67.5 (not €85) billion bailout

Jim Stewart 02/12/2010

Jim Stewart: Whatever the Taoiseach thought he was doing at the press conference last Sunday) in announcing the EU/IMF net loans to Ireland of …

Unemployment, emigration and growth

Tom O'Connor 09/11/2010

Tom O'Connor: The seasonally adjusted unemployment figures show a fall of 6,500 signing on the live register. This is totally due to emigration. In …

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 …

Unemployment and paying for pensions

03/11/2010

Andrew Watt of the European Trade Union Institute - who spoke at the recent FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference - has an interesting take on jobs and …

INOU Pre-Budget Submission

03/11/2010

"Popular media debate would have us all believe that the crisis in the public finances arises because public expenditure went out of control. Did it? …

Guest post by Dr Rory Hearne: Why aren't the Irish protesting?

Rory Hearne 19/10/2010

Rory Hearne: A short while back, I was asked the question for the This Week Rte Radio 1 show was ‘why aren’t the Irish protesting?’ I thought …

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