Category: Fiscal policy
NAMA revelations
Nat O'Connor 21/12/2009
Nat O'Connor: The Irish Times has a series of articles on NAMA, based on documents they got through freedom of information requests. These include a …
NAMA debt
Michael Burke 17/12/2009
Michael Burke: Leading critics of NAMA argued prior to its inception that it would provide no new credit in the economy. Writing in today's Irish …
Using the recession as an opportunity for Irish economic development
Tom O'Connor 17/12/2009
Tom O'Connor: The ESRI expect national income GNP to fall by 9.4% overall in 2009, and by a further 1.8% in 2010, with growth returning in the last …
The Dutch experience
Michael Burke 17/12/2009
Michael Burke: There is a very useful post here on the reflationary policies in The Netherlands. The Dutch join a long list of European countries …
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 …
Municipal bonds can help solve our funding problems
10/12/2009
This post has been written by Stephen Kinsella of the University of Limerick and Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers Problem: Cash strapped local …
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 …
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 …
The economic crisis: some suggestions
Jim Stewart 06/12/2009
Jim Stewart: The economic crisis has revealed failures in many areas:- regulation, industrial policy, tax policy, corporate governance and planning. …
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