Category: Fiscal policy


Social welfare cuts and NAMA

Peter Connell 05/08/2009

Peter Connell: Brian Lenihan is quoted in Saturday’s Irish Times as insisting that the banking crisis is ‘entirely separate’ to the financial …

More on NAMA ...

04/08/2009

On the eve of publication of the draft NAMA legislation, Mike Allen of Focus Ireland wrote a guest post for PE arguing that NAMA must generate a …

A wry take on NAMA and other links

04/08/2009

"All citizens shall extemporise pompous and reactionary views on dole scroungers, trade unions, pampered schoolchildren and other social parasites …

Homo Economicus Dublinius

Slí Eile 03/08/2009

Slí Eile: Commenting on this website, anonymous said ...as a private sector worker married to a nurse I can assure you that the reality of life for …

NAMA: And then there are the unknown unknowns

Slí Eile 31/07/2009

Slí Eile: In the immortal words of Donald Rumsfeld: "There are the known knowns and the unknown knowns. And then there are the known unknowns. And …

Draft NAMA legislation

30/07/2009

Click here to download the proposed legislation, and here to download the explanatory memorandum. The Minister's accompanying statement is available …

Dublin Consensus rattled by Begg article

Slí Eile 29/07/2009

Slí Eile: Nothing better to create some heat over on irisheconomy.ie or in follow-up comments to an op ed on the Irish Times than an article by ICTU …

Guest post by Mike Allen: NAMA must generate social dividend

Mike Allen 29/07/2009

Mike Allen: Most of the debate on NAMA, both from the left and the right, has concentrated on questions of nationalisation or good bank/bad bank …

The IDA and the wages debate

Michael Taft 28/07/2009

Michael Taft: A couple of weeks ago, the Chief Executive of the IDA, Barry O’Leary, jumped into the debate about wages – suggesting they were …

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