Posts by Slí Eile
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The '07 Smell Test?
Slí Eile 07/05/2009
Slí Eile: Over on Irisheconomy.ie Colm McCarthy is warning against nostalgia about going back to 2007. We must agree. But that is about the extent …
'We've screwed up - that's the truth'
Slí Eile 04/05/2009
Sli Eile: ‘We’ve screwed up – that’s the truth’ – so writes Professor Ray Kinsella of the UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School in the …
Low corporate taxes and poverty
Slí Eile 27/04/2009
Sli Eile: In a letter to the Irish Times, Justin Kilcullen of Trócaire imagines what it would be like if ‘thousands of Africans, Asians, and Latin …
Back to the future
Slí Eile 22/04/2009
Sli Eile: John Maynard Keynes, speaking in UCD in 1933, praised the self-sufficiency policies of various countries including, at the time, ‘Italy, …
Report card for the parties in opposition
Slí Eile 21/04/2009
Sli Eile: Over recent weeks I assessed the various economic proposals of some political parties – see previous posts on this site for Fine Gael, …
Labour proposals on job creation
Slí Eile 13/04/2009
Slí eile: Being a small island country on the edge of Europe, there was a time when we were taught at school that ‘Ireland has no natural …
Budget 2009: further comments
Slí Eile 07/04/2009
Sli Eile: Some additional – and initial – observations about specific points in the Budget. Leading by example? The announced changes to pay and …
Budget 2009: Dept of Finance project 15.5% unemployment
Slí Eile 07/04/2009
Sli Eile: Some say a week is a long time in politics. Well, only a few weeks ago the Government was ruling out another budget (don't mention the B …
To nationalise or not to nationalise ?
Slí Eile 24/02/2009
Sli Eile: Now that the inevitable draws near - questions are asked about how nationalisation of banking in Ireland would operate. It is timely to …
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