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The incredible shrinking billionaires and other stories

12/03/2009

This story has made all the papers, but the Guardian probably has the most succinct account: apparently the number of billionaires on the planet has …

Borrow, Tax and Spend?

10/03/2009

“This notion that the economy is self-stabilising is usually right but it is wrong a few times a century. And this is one of those …

Who’s for some expansionary fiscal contraction?

Peter Connell 10/03/2009

Peter Connell: The mini-budget that we can look forward to in three weeks time will, I’m sure we’ll be told, ‘constitute a necessary first step …

Krugman on bad banks / good banks

09/03/2009

Following on from Terry McDonough's post on bank nationalisation, Paul Krugman makes some interesting points on the whole bad bank/good bank argument …

We can't go back to 'bad banks'

06/03/2009

With all the discussion of 'good' and 'bad' banks - see the excellent posts by Terry McDonough on this site and Karl Whelan at irisheconomy.ie - it …

Exchequer Returns Emphasise Need for Growth Strategy

04/03/2009

Yesterday's exchequer returns mark the end of Ireland's tax strategy since the end of the 1990s. As capital gains taxes collapse and stamp duty …

Economic Sociology on the Financial Crisis

04/03/2009

Fred Block traces the evolution of the sub-prime crisis in this very clear exposition of the problem. Donald McKenzie of Edinburgh University makes …

Comfort from US Heritage Foundation: we may be broke, but we’re economically free!

Paula Clancy 03/03/2009

Paula Clancy: Looking for something else on the web, I came across Ireland’s entry in the 2009 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the …

Socio-economic dimensions of the worsening employment picture

Sean Ó Riain 03/03/2009

Sean O Riain: There is a helpful post over at irisheconomy.ie by Brendan Walsh outlining the worsening employment picture as reflected in the latest …

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