Category: Economics
Reducing the Irish cost base
An tSaoi 14/12/2009
An Saoi: Almost all of the focus to date in terms of reducing costs has been on reducing labour costs. This has been done by reducing the numbers in …
Budget 2010 will do nothing to get the economy out of recession
Tom O'Connor 10/12/2009
Tom O'Connor: Budget 2010 will cause immense hardship and will do nothing to get the economy out of recession. The four billion in savings could have …
Budget 2010: Multipliers not banished from Ireland
Michael Burke 10/12/2009
Michael Burke: The Budget contained no estimate as to the real cost, in terms of human misery, of the effects of the crisis to date and the …
Budget 2010: the geographical impact
Michael Taft 10/12/2009
Michael Taft: The Ireland after Nama blog offers an alarming perspective on the effect of the public sector pay cuts on the econmic fortunes of …
Anglo-Irish bondholders + €4bn; Public Services - €4bn
Slí Eile 09/12/2009
Slí Eile: Budget 2010 has been well-rehearsed for many months. The Government, together with the media and principal political commentators, have …
Austerity and the financial markets
Michael Burke 09/12/2009
Michael Burke: Financial markets have a great many faults. But they can frequently provide a signal of their participants’ collective thinking with …
League tables and losing the plot
08/12/2009
This post was originally written on April 21st in response to an article in the Sunday Business Post. We are re-posting it following last night's …
Transfering public goods to bondholders in zombie banks
Slí Eile 06/12/2009
Slí Eile: As the pressure mounts on all sides – media, politics, radio phone-in shows – to cut public spending a question arises about the …
Tax Breaks
Nat O'Connor 04/12/2009
Nat O'Connor: TASC has estimated that tax breaks ('tax expenditure' to use the technical term) on personal income tax and corporation tax will cost …
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