Posts by Michael Taft
Michael Taft @notesonthefront
Michael Taft is an economic analyst and trade unionist. He is author of the Notes of the Front blog and a member of the TASC Economists’ Network.
Holidaying in the financial sector
Michael Taft 19/08/2010
Michael Taft: Conor McCabe has produced an interesting and potentially disturbing set of figures over on Dublin Opinion. Based on World Trade …
Finding the money
Michael Taft 05/08/2010
Michael Taft: Even before the Live Register figures were released, Tom O’Connor put forward a powerful critique of the Government’s failed fiscal …
The unacknowledged demise of the Government's fiscal strategy
Michael Taft 29/07/2010
Michael Taft: Strange how some things don’t get into the debate. For instance, the ESRI’s recent Recovery Scenarios judged the Government’s …
Having a go in the dark
Michael Taft 22/07/2010
Michael Taft: That the Sunday Business Post has another go at public sector workers should hardly be news. Every time they mention public sector …
What goes around the track comes off the track
Michael Taft 15/07/2010
Michael Taft: Remember a few months ago, when ICTU proposed postponing the target year for Maastricht compliance to 2017? There was a widespread …
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 …
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 …
Prices and profiteering in the food sector
Michael Taft 30/06/2010
Michael Taft: There will be many attempts to explain the high costs of food and beverages in Ireland – a state of affairs that is hardly new. …
The urgent priorities
Michael Taft 21/06/2010
Michael Taft: Professor Ray Kinsella, a leading light in common sense economics, put it this way on Saturday View: ‘The economic strategy upon …
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