Blog Archive

Executive directors, other employees and pension inequality

Gerard Hughes 10/06/2011

Gerry Hughes: In 2007 employer contributions to occupational pension schemes on behalf of employees amounted to €1.4 billion and the estimated cost …

Negotiating truth

Tom McDonnell 09/06/2011

Tom McDonnell: The FT makes an important point about the supposed independent country assessments produced by bodies like the IMF and the OECD. These …

A picture paints a thousand essays

Michael Taft 07/06/2011

Michael Taft: After all the arguments, tables, charts and footnotes, sometimes it takes just a picture to tell it as it really is. Courtesy of Mark …

Believing in fairies

Slí Eile 05/06/2011

Slí Eile: While columnist Breda O'Brien may not be everyone's cuppa tea I suspect that contributors to this board will give at least 9 out of 10 for …

May is a wicked month

An tSaoi 04/06/2011

An Saoi: The tax figures were released with a range of different views expressed. Read Dan O'Brien as an example of the general tenor of comment. …

Guest post by Arthur Doohan: The burning of the bondholders

Arthur Doohan 02/06/2011

Arthur Doohan: There is something of a scramble to jump onto the bandwagon of those seeking to attend the 'burning of the bondholders'. What could …

Martin Wolf's Intolerable Choices for the Eurozone

02/06/2011

Martin Wolf provides a timely analysis of the Eurozone's options. Wolf argues that ultimately the Eurozone faces a choice between default and partial …

A Marie Antoinette moment

01/06/2011

"Marie Antoinette's infamous response to the news of bread riots prior to the French Revolution, "Let them eat cake", may be apocryphal but it …

Why are businesses going out of business?

Michael Taft 01/06/2011

Michael Taft: To listen to employers’ groups and Minister Bruton, you’d think that businesses are going out of business because the lowest paid …

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