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Breaking our arms

Michael Taft 06/01/2011

Michael Taft: Before we break our arms from patting ourselves on the back over our export growth, let’s take a fact break. Clearly, Irish exports …

Rebuilding the Economy

31/12/2010

Paul Sweeney and Danny McCoy (IBEC) present different views on rebuilding the economy in today's Irish Times, which is also the theme of today's …

How good is our export performance?

Rory O'Farrell 23/12/2010

Rory O'Farrell: The government's policy (its probably overly generous to call it a policy, more the rationale give for their various mistakes) is to …

Are Irish Managers up to the task?

21/12/2010

The Irish Times carries an interesting report on the mediocre performance of Irish management. This is consistent with previous reports (available …

Only growth can reduce the debt

Michael Burke 13/12/2010

Michael Burke: Over on Irish Ecoomy, Karl Whelan has initiated a useful discussion highlighting some of the differences between EU Commission and …

Beware economists bearing models

13/12/2010

The following is abridged from a post that appears on Notes on the Front. See also Nat O'Connor's post here. Michael Taft: So the 2011 budget

Progressive Austerity?

Nat O'Connor 10/12/2010

Nat O'Connor: There has been a flurry of calculations about the effect of Budget 2011. One technical, but important, point is that our income tax …

TASC analysis of Budget 2011

09/12/2010

TASC has issued its analysis of Budget 2011; you can download a PDF of the document here. Comments?

A Merry Christmas for plutocrats

Tom McDonnell 08/12/2010

Tom McDonnell: TASC will be releasing a full budget response tomorrow. In the meantime feast your eyes on some good news for all of you single, …

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