Blog Archive

DDDA Reports

26/03/2010

Leaked copies of Professor Niamh Brennan's three reports on the DDDA are available here (thanks to The Story for this link).

The day after the IMF's tomorrow

Michael Taft 24/03/2010

Michael Taft: The IMF has suggested that the Irish Government’s growth projections are too optimistic and should be scaled back. So has the EU …

IMF et al on Fiscal Stimulus

Michael Burke 23/03/2010

Michael Burke: Philip Lane has posted a link to a very useful IMF working paper here. The paper draws on a wide variety of leading macroeconomic …

Creating a smart society

Colm O'Doherty 23/03/2010

Colm O'Doherty: The grade inflation in the formal education system controversy failed to get to grips with the critical issue around what constitutes …

Fiscal recklessness and the TINA mantra

Tom McDonnell 22/03/2010

Tom McDonnell: The startling change in mood that has come upon the Irish people in this post Tiger era is reminiscent of a hangover after the ball. …

Economically damaging and fiscally irrelevant

Michael Burke, Michael Taft 22/03/2010

Michael Burke & Michael Taft: It is often stated that to reduce the fiscal deficit we must cut public spending. There is an assumption, never …

Benchmarking Working Europe

22/03/2010

The European Trade Union Institute (Brussels) has recently brought out a publication comparing European countries in areas such as income, …

Jobs and recovery

Tom O'Connor 19/03/2010

Tom O'Connor: The Labour Party are holding a public seminar in Cork tomorrow on solutions to Ireland's economic crisis. The speakers including myself …

Another take on healthcare

18/03/2010

"There is a startling commonality between the root causes and defects of the ongoing banking crisis and those that continue to gain momentum within …

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