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Those who live by the bond yield ...
Michael Taft 21/04/2011
Michael Taft: Remember all those comments in the days following the latest bank-bailout? How the markets had sent positive signals? That confidence …
Palcic and Reeves on privatisation
21/04/2011
Given the week that's in it, PE readers may be interested in a new book by Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves, Privatisation in Ireland: Lessons from a …
Towards the Good Society
Sinéad Pentony 20/04/2011
Sinéad Pentony: As the debt, fiscal and economic crises rumble on, and as fire-fighting policy responses continue, it can be difficult to think …
Has the time come?
19/04/2011
"In 1816, the British parliament repealed the temporary income tax that William Pitt the Younger had introduced in 1789 to finance the Napoleonic …
Integrating innovation drivers
David Jacobson 19/04/2011
David Jacobson: I have been banging on in a number of blogs over the years on the importance of innovation policy, and in particular on the …
Troika statement: It's Friday, let's go to the pub
15/04/2011
From the statement by the EC, ECB and IMF released today: ‘The teams’ assessment is that the program is on track but challenges remain and …
Stiglitz on the Irish crisis
Tom McDonnell 15/04/2011
Tom McDonnell: Joe Stiglitz's preface to a new collection of essays on Exiting from the Crisis makes for interesting reading. The publication (to …
Myths of the Irish Crisis: Wages and Competitiveness
14/04/2011
TASC has just issued a new discussion paper by TASC economist (and PE blogger) Tom McDonnell examining two distinct but related claims. First that …
Guess-the-speaker
Michael Taft 14/04/2011
Michael Taft: "Just as we managed to tame inflation in the 1980s, this decade should be the one that takes full employment seriously once again . . . …
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