Category: The Budget
The data being sent to IMF and EU bodies should be public
Nat O'Connor 10/01/2012
Nat O'Connor: The latest IMF report on Ireland has an important annex: Annex 1. Provision of data (pages 81-82), which gives a list of "indicators …
Ireland's 'Inability to Pay' 5.8 Percent
Nat O'Connor 01/12/2010
Nat O'Connor: The interest rate on the EFSF loan is to be 5.8 per cent (on average). Can Ireland afford this? Professor Morgan Kelly of UCD wrote an …
Irish versus Transparency?
Nat O'Connor 19/04/2010
Nat O'Connor: Am I the only one who was wondering why it was taking so long for the Finance Act 2010 to be publicly available? (It was signed into …
Transfering public goods to bondholders in zombie banks
Slí Eile 06/12/2009
Slí Eile: As the pressure mounts on all sides – media, politics, radio phone-in shows – to cut public spending a question arises about the …
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