Category: Investment
Fiscal recklessness and the TINA mantra
Tom McDonnell 22/03/2010
Tom McDonnell: The startling change in mood that has come upon the Irish people in this post Tiger era is reminiscent of a hangover after the ball. …
Jobs and recovery
Tom O'Connor 19/03/2010
Tom O'Connor: The Labour Party are holding a public seminar in Cork tomorrow on solutions to Ireland's economic crisis. The speakers including myself …
Slash and Burn
Paul Sweeney 13/03/2010
Paul Sweeney: Michael Burke is correct in saying that competitive devaluation does not work. It does not matter what so many economists think, or …
The TASC letter: Fiscally consolidating what?
Michael Taft 10/03/2010
Michael Taft: The TASC letter raised the prospect of ‘restructuring taxation and expenditure in a progressive and expansionary manner’. This begs …
The debate begins
Michael Burke 09/03/2010
Michael Burke: The Open Letter is being discussed over at Irish Economy. Two interesting counter-thrusts, which are not entirely new. One is that the …
All the wrong options have been pursed: open letter in today's Irish Times
08/03/2010
28 economists, social scientists and economic analysts (many of them familiar to PE readers) have written an open letter, published in today's Irish …
Let us invest in the future
Michael Burke 24/02/2010
Michael Burke: In today's Financial Times, chief economics commentator Martin Wolf has an interesting piece on how we can get out of the crisis. He …
Latest rental figures
16/02/2010
The latest DAFT report is out covering rents, and PE's Michael Taft has written the quarterly commentary. The headline news is that rents have …
Government policies
Tom O'Connor 08/02/2010
Tom O'Connor: The exchequer figures published last week show that government tax revenues have fallen by €700 million from €3.7 billion in …
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Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …