Category: Fiscal policy
A new deal is required
Tom McDonnell 01/12/2011
Tom McDonnell: On Monday and Tuesday we will be treated to the latest instalments of the austerity show. While the structural deficit does need to be …
Budget 2012 - Choices
Tom McDonnell 28/11/2011
Tom McDonnell: According to Eurostat, Ireland will have the lowest rate of gross fixed capital formation in the EU next year (see pages 68-69 of the …
Is the government hiding more austerity?
Michael Taft 16/11/2011
Michael Taft: The Government may be hiding up to €800 in austerity measures in their recent Medium-Term Fiscal Statement (MTFS). I use the term …
MTFS (III) - Sensitivity of government finances
Michael Burke 14/11/2011
Michael Burke: Having criticised the government’s talk of improvement in government finances and the economy on the basis of the MTFS forecasts, …
MTFS (II) - It's official, there is no recovery
Michael Burke 11/11/2011
Michael Burke: The government is focused on deficit-reduction. But it is failing to reduce the deficit. There is an extraordinary discrepancy between …
MTFS (I) - Things are getting worse, not better.
Michael Burke 10/11/2011
Michael Burke: The forecasts for both the deficit and for the debt level have worsened since April. The government’s Medium Term Fiscal Statement …
Turning phrases in the face of reality
Michael Taft 07/11/2011
Michael Taft: So we have more austerity and less growth, more debt and less jobs, more spending cuts and less investment – welcome to the …
Spinning our tax wheels
Michael Taft 03/11/2011
Michael Taft: The Exchequer statement out yesterday shows tax revenue falling short of target. The headline rate shows tax revenue at end October …
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Tom McDonnell 19/10/2011
Tom McDonnell: Martin Wolf has an excellent and honest appraisal of the chances of the Euro crisis being successfully resolved in a way that is …
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