Posts by Slí Eile
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McCarthy on fiscal correction - advice to Scotland
Slí Eile 02/02/2010
Slí Eile: Never shy to expound, economist Colm McCarthy, of Bord Snip fame imparted wit and neo-liberal orthodoxy last week in Edinburgh. See an …
...but what kind of capitalism do we want?....
Slí Eile 01/02/2010
Slí Eile: Speaking, last week, at the World Economic Forum (WEF at Davos), French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in big picture mode discussing the …
‘Ireland now needs to generate an internal devaluation, with prices and wages falling’
Slí Eile 25/01/2010
Slí Eile: So runs the recent ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary (page 50). A lot of the debate on competition and competitiveness is narrowly …
Blog on fiscal situation in Greece
Slí Eile 21/01/2010
Slí Eile: Read the discussion on today's Irish economy on Greek fiscal situation following blog, there, by Michael Burke.
Who really took the hit in Budget 2010?
Slí Eile 21/01/2010
Slí Eile: Once upon a time there was a thing called ‘poverty proofing’. And there used to be Agencies (State ones) that specialised in looking …
New Statesman article on Irish fiscal policy
Slí Eile 13/01/2010
Slí Eile: This article by Ron Brown on Irish fiscal policy is worth a read.
"Ireland seems to have accepted such a future. Spain and Greece have not"
Slí Eile 12/01/2010
Slí Eile: So wrote Martin Wolf in the Financial Times last week. The context was as follows: This leaves peripheral countries in a trap: they cannot …
Mirror, mirror on the wall: who is the most deflationary of them all?
Slí Eile 10/01/2010
Slí Eile: The ESRI authors of their latest Quarterly Economic Commentary make the following two claims: ‘In spite of popular perceptions, analysis …
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