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STT bid for Eircom
Donal Palcic 06/08/2009
Donal Palcic: The fifth change of ownership of Eircom now appears imminent with Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT) very likely to make a deal to …
Deflationary Threat is Real and will lead us into deeper mire.
Paul Sweeney 06/08/2009
Paul Sweeney: The revenue shortfall in last night’s tax revenue figures to the end of July is a hefty €575 million greater than the Department of …
Financial exclusion - a lucrative business for some
Paula Clancy 06/08/2009
Paula Clancy: Last December, TASC organised a seminar on financial exclusion. The day before, Sean Fitzpatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish …
Exchequer Returns confirm impact of Government deflationary strategy
Slí Eile 05/08/2009
Slí Eile: Predictably, the collapse in retail sales, among other things, is taking its toll on Exchequer returns as signalled in today's latest …
"Markets can be wrong and the price is not always right"
Slí Eile 05/08/2009
Slí Eile: Of relevance in NAMA-land, writing in yesterday's Financial Times Richard Thaler reports that the 'Efficient Market Hypothesis' is under …
Social welfare cuts and NAMA
Peter Connell 05/08/2009
Peter Connell: Brian Lenihan is quoted in Saturday’s Irish Times as insisting that the banking crisis is ‘entirely separate’ to the financial …
Let them eat Cake
Slí Eile 04/08/2009
Slí Eile: Economics is a neutral science - don't you know. ESRI authors Anne Jennings, Seán Lyons and Richard Tol have just completed a working …
More on NAMA ...
04/08/2009
On the eve of publication of the draft NAMA legislation, Mike Allen of Focus Ireland wrote a guest post for PE arguing that NAMA must generate a …
A wry take on NAMA and other links
04/08/2009
"All citizens shall extemporise pompous and reactionary views on dole scroungers, trade unions, pampered schoolchildren and other social parasites …
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Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …