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Paying the price of poor regulation in Banking

Anon 01/01/2010

Anon: Morgan Kelly’s UCD paper on the Irish Bubble reproduced here on 29th December is a chilling view of the kind of policies which nearly brought …

The Irish Credit Bubble

Slí Eile 29/12/2009

Slí Eile: Here is a link to an interesting paper by economist Morgan Kelly at UCD.

Reforming the Public Servic: More on Govt Prog

Slí Eile 28/12/2009

Slí Eile: Continuing on the Renewed Programme of Government - the Section on Reform of public services (p33) contains some good (and long overdue …

New Year Resolutions?

Slí Eile 26/12/2009

Slí Eile: Remember the Renewed Programme for Government (early October)? In the meantime we have had Budget 2010. Following earlier blogs on the …

Ireland seeks Hedge Funds

Nat O'Connor 23/12/2009

Nat O'Connor: A article in the Financial Times states that the Government is seeking to attract hedge funds to Ireland. Dublin to open door for hedge …

Taking stock: 2010

Slí Eile 22/12/2009

Slí Eile: Following previous blogs about the principles underlying a progressive strategy for economic recovery with fairness, here are another …

NAMA revelations

Nat O'Connor 21/12/2009

Nat O'Connor: The Irish Times has a series of articles on NAMA, based on documents they got through freedom of information requests. These include a …

Out of recession?

Slí Eile 19/12/2009

Slí Eile: There are three types of economists - those who can count and those who cannot count. Counting two quarters of growth in GDP in a row …

Spinning our way out of recession

Paul Sweeney 17/12/2009

Paul Sweeney: A small increase of 0.3% in GDP in Q3 of 2009 means that Ireland is no longer in recession according to some economists, and this was …

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