Category: Investment
Headline growth
Michael Burke 23/06/2011
Michael Burke: Irish Economy Grows Fastest In Three Years, runs one headline on the Blooomberg news agency. It would be great to think that after all …
The realm of forgetting
Michael Burke 18/06/2011
Michael Burke: I’m guessing that Dan O’Brien may not be every reader of this blog’s favourite economic commentator. Just a hunch. But reading a …
Why are businesses going out of business?
Michael Taft 01/06/2011
Michael Taft: To listen to employers’ groups and Minister Bruton, you’d think that businesses are going out of business because the lowest paid …
Slight but important clarification
Tom McDonnell 10/05/2011
Tom McDonnell: I believe I was slightly taken out of context in the Irish Times today. I was quoted as saying “...austerity measures would not …
The Hunt Report, and how to close the deficit
Michael Burke 11/01/2011
Michael Burke: There are many shortcomings in the Hunt Report ‘National Strategy for Higher Education’ – but one thing that’s very useful. …
Ireland needs partners, not predators
Michael Burke 04/01/2011
Michael Burke: One of the problems for those arguing for an investment-led response to the crisis is that €17.5bn of this economy's current assets …
Guest post by Gerard Doyle and Tanya Lalor: Getting more bang for your buck
13/12/2010
In this guest post, Gerard Doyle and Tanya Lalor of TSA Consultancy make the case for social enterprise to be part of any future stimulus programme. …
Running out of logic
Michael Burke 11/11/2010
Michael Burke: The Finance Minister's statement that, if the government's Budget is not passed the country will run out of money, has been examined …
House Swap on Ghost Estates
26/10/2010
Nat O'Connor The Department of the Environment has published a report into the state of 120,000 dwellings in Ireland's unfinished, 'ghost' housing …
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