Category: Economics
Lies, damned lies and statistics: car scrappage scheme
An tSaoi 04/02/2010
An Saoi: On Tuesday morning Alan Nolan of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry was on Morning Ireland and made reference to the increase in car …
AIB makes case for increased public spending
Peter Connell 02/02/2010
Peter Connell: Encouraging news from AIB. In its Economic Outlook for 2010 published last month the bank agrees with many of those writing on PE on …
Memo to IBEC
Michael Taft 30/01/2010
Michael Taft: Yesterday evening I was on Matt Cooper’s The Last Word with a representative from IBEC discussing wage levels. I quoted the numbers …
There are smarter ways to economic recovery
Stephen Kinsella 29/01/2010
Stephen Kinsella: The smart economy is a nice idea, perhaps even a good idea. But like most nice ideas, when exposed to reality, the smart economy …
The State of the US
Nat O'Connor 28/01/2010
Nat O'Connor: I'm sure I'm not the only one who watched President Obama's State of the Union address to Congress. (Various versions of it are on …
Interrogating the Irish model
Peadar Kirby 28/01/2010
Peadar Kirby: This week saw a rare mention of political economy models entering the debate on the future of Irish society. Carl O’Brien’s series …
Oh, those landlords and bankers
Michael Taft 27/01/2010
Michael Taft: Following on from the excellent points made by Proinsias Breathnach and Slí Eile regarding the role of labour costs in economic …
‘Ireland now needs to generate an internal devaluation, with prices and wages falling’
Slí Eile 25/01/2010
Slí Eile: So runs the recent ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary (page 50). A lot of the debate on competition and competitiveness is narrowly …
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