Posts by Michael Taft
Michael Taft @notesonthefront
Michael Taft is an economic analyst and trade unionist. He is author of the Notes of the Front blog and a member of the TASC Economists’ Network.
Appeasing the crazy
Michael Taft 20/06/2010
Michael Taft: Joseph Stiglitz, writing in the Sunday Tribune, warns against trying to reason with ‘markets’: ‘Appeasing the markets is like …
Irish debt ... finally, some healthy scepticism
Michael Taft 07/06/2010
Michael Taft: Just because some people don’t get it – that shouldn’t stop us from getting it. Colm ‘Digger’ McCarthy was at it again, …
The inter-relationship of it all
Michael Taft 02/06/2010
Michael Taft: From Ernst & Young’s Economic Eye Summer 2010 forecast, two projections scream out from the report: First, employment levels …
Get thee to a calculator
Michael Taft 30/05/2010
Michael Taft: ‘One and one is what I’m telling you / get a pocket computer’ So sang Blondie. Deborah Harry might have been singing to whoever …
Dare we take note?
Michael Taft 26/05/2010
Michael Taft: Lawrence Summers, Director of President Obama’s National Economic Council, is articulating sound economic common sense(thanks to …
Unaffordable commentary
Michael Taft 23/05/2010
Michael Taft: We will never find the answers to our severe economic problems until we ground our debate in facts. Take the issue of wages and labour …
Money for some, just not us
Michael Taft 17/05/2010
Michael Taft: ‘Folks, the money ain’t there. There is no untaxed honey-pot of rich people to be taxed. Put top rate taxes up to where they were …
How progressive is Irish taxation?
Michael Taft 12/05/2010
Michael Taft: This follows on from Nat O’Connor’s post on taxation and concerns an issue raised by Seamus Coffey in a considered comment; namely, …
The great fiscal shell game
Michael Taft 22/04/2010
Michael Taft: The only enjoyable aspect of Eurostat’s decision today to reclassify the Anglo-Irish Bank subsidy as a liability on the General …
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