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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