Month: August 2008
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August 5th Morning: The Recesion Diaries
What a way to spend some free time. Over this long weekend I was going through past statements issued by the Small Firms Association. You remember that little group –…
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AUGUST 3rd – A LAZY, DOG-DAY AFTERNOON: THE RECESSION DIARIES
GET RICH THE IBEC WAY! If you accept our new low-low offer, you too can be better off by €2 per day. You heard right – a big €2 per…
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August 2nd – Hours After The Pay Talks Collapse: The Recession Diaries
So the pay talks have ‘collapsed’, or as one commentator on Newstalk put it, ‘the social partners are entering into a period of trial separation’. The Taoiseach wants to meet…
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August 1st Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
It was an interview of two halves. On Morning Ireland, FAS economist Brian McCormick made an excellent point in the first half of the interview, discussing the inexorable rise in…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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