Do you remember why the Government introduced the emergency April budget? Rising unemployment? Collapse in economic growth? Mass depression over the weather? Let’s refresh our memories: ‘Without this supplementary Budget…

Ronan Lyon has written an instructive post on the ‘Thorny Issue of Teachers’ Pay’. So useful, in fact, that it was highlighted on Irish.economy and in the Sunday Business Post.…

Pat Leahy examines the impact a Left-led government might make on the economy and concludes . . . well, I’m not quite sure what the conclusion is. Indeed, I’m not…

In time, the acronym NAMA may enter into everyday language, much like Catch-22. But we don’t know,yet, with what inflection it will be used. It could end up something like…

That wild and whacky outrider of neo-liberalism, Constantin Gurdgiev, has taken a scalpel to the Government’s budget numbers and I find myself . . . agreeing with him. No surprise…

Easter Sunday. An odd subject to for a blog on political economy to consider? I don’t think so. I have referred to religious-ethical issues before and on the way revealed…

More and more people will have loads of time on their hands to study the fall-out of the emergency budget – the growing numbers who will become redundant or get…

This article was originally written for Indymedia I don’t intend to list the outrages that Fianna Fail has perpetrated in yesterday’s budget. We all have scars to show each other.…

Dare to spend. That is my advice to Brian Cowen in advance of tomorrow’s budget. Dare to borrow, to invest, to lend: now is not the time for timid measures,…

Yes, it does look rather one-sided. IBEC, representing some of the most powerful financial and corporate interests, have called for payments to the weakest interests in society to be cut,…

Warning! If you are lucky enough to be invited on to a national radio programme – for example, the Pat Kenny show – to discuss the economic crisis, whatever you…