Posts by Slí Eile
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Its OK to borrow off-sheet when it comes to NAMA
Slí Eile 29/10/2009
Slí eile: When it comes to sorting out banking and keeping risk to under 5% for bondholders, there is nothing to beat a bit of creative accounting …
Controversies over speed of fiscal adjustment
Slí Eile 28/10/2009
Slí Eile: A recent paper by John Fitzgerald of the ESRI (‘Fiscal Policy for Recovery’) indicates the scale of challenge facing public finances …
How are we going to pay for a Learning Society?
Slí Eile 24/10/2009
Slí Eile: It is necessary to point out that no society anywhere in the world provides ‘free education’. Paying for teachers, other staff, …
NAMA made simple
Slí Eile 23/10/2009
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Shock News: The entire €4bn fiscal adjustment goes to just one Zombie Bank
Slí Eile 21/10/2009
Slí Eile: The next time you hear a politician or economist saying that our current public borrowing deficit ‘has nothing to do with NAMA’ show …
How much does the State spend as a percentage of GDP?
Slí Eile 20/10/2009
Slí Eile: Earlier this month, at a conference of the National Economic and Social Council, Joseph Stiglitz warned against a single-minded focus on …
Kenmare Dublin Economics Workshop
Slí Eile 17/10/2009
Slí Eile: The chorus is in full swing. The Dublin Economic Consensus workshop in Kenmare. Cuts, Deflation, Now, No Alternative. Even Garrett the …
Benchmarking pay of migrants and women
Slí Eile 17/10/2009
Slí Eile: There is a rising crescendo of continuing controversy about public sector pay. On the one side independent statistical and research …
NAMA: trick or treat?
Slí Eile 15/10/2009
Slí Eile: I see that over on irisheconomy.ie Karl Whelan is doing overtime churning out one blog after another on the NAMA business plan. His latest …
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