Category: Investment
Education cutbacks bad for economy
Sinéad Pentony 04/08/2011
Sinéad Pentony: Today’s news that class sizes are set to increase highlights the shortsightedness of responses to the fiscal crisis. As in many …
New Deal for Europe
Slí Eile 20/07/2011
Slí Eile: An extremely lucid and timely contribution by Miguel Carrion from at Eurointelligence here. He writes:The "New Deal for Europe" would …
Google and the case for broadband investment
Tom McDonnell 28/06/2011
Tom McDonnell: It is too easy in these days of high drama on the European stage to forget the fundamentals that will drive our eventual economic …
Headline growth
Michael Burke 23/06/2011
Michael Burke: Irish Economy Grows Fastest In Three Years, runs one headline on the Blooomberg news agency. It would be great to think that after all …
The realm of forgetting
Michael Burke 18/06/2011
Michael Burke: I’m guessing that Dan O’Brien may not be every reader of this blog’s favourite economic commentator. Just a hunch. But reading a …
Why are businesses going out of business?
Michael Taft 01/06/2011
Michael Taft: To listen to employers’ groups and Minister Bruton, you’d think that businesses are going out of business because the lowest paid …
Slight but important clarification
Tom McDonnell 10/05/2011
Tom McDonnell: I believe I was slightly taken out of context in the Irish Times today. I was quoted as saying “...austerity measures would not …
The Hunt Report, and how to close the deficit
Michael Burke 11/01/2011
Michael Burke: There are many shortcomings in the Hunt Report ‘National Strategy for Higher Education’ – but one thing that’s very useful. …
Ireland needs partners, not predators
Michael Burke 04/01/2011
Michael Burke: One of the problems for those arguing for an investment-led response to the crisis is that €17.5bn of this economy's current assets …
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