What do you call this?  Eamon Gilmore, TD read out in the Dail a statement by Brian Cowen, TD from 2004 when the latter was Minister for Finance.  Mr. Cowen…

Friday morning and I’m looking forward to the weekend and hopefully catching a few rays.  A friend, however, sends me a copy of the Goodbody report – the most pessimistic…

ICTU is playing some hardball.  Recently, David Begg suggested that inflation could go as high as 6.5 per cent.  He’s probably not far off the mark.  Today’s CSO’s figures show…

God bless IBEC.  If it didn’t exist we’d have to invent it – if only to fully understand how you can manipulate an argument out of all recognition from the…

No matter what point in the economic cycle a country is in, the science of history gets a battering.  But in recession times, history is just simply invented.  Take Professor…

Thank god someone is talking common sense.  Tom O’Connor, economist at the Cork Institute of Technology, was on Morning Ireland arguing that rather than cutting expenditure, we should be looking…

Out for pints with a friend who treats Exchequer monthly returns like the Racing Post – forever checking the forms of the various revenue streams and then predicting the next…

Some people ask me – why is everything collapsing? Okay – so there aren’t a whole lot of houses being built. Can that possibly explain this sudden drop? The last…

Apologies for being away for so long – work pressure and all.  And what a time – recession time!  It’s hard to know what is more depressing:  the fact of…