Over at Cedar Lounge Revolution, WBS is doing a good job tracking the ongoing campaign against Ireland’s borrowing capacity and, in particular, the performance of the National Treasury Management Agency.…

Boy, was Senator Fergal Quinn taken in. Or was he? In his recent column, ‘Getting people work a priority’ he attempts to make two real-life comparisons – one based on…

Jim Stewart has come up with a provocative idea to stimulate one small part of the economy: ‘Some possible measures to stimulate spending could be vouchers which must be spent…

Be under no illusion – the economic debate is now morphing from an obsession with debts and deficits into a full-blown assault on the public realm that has more in…

The ESRI’s recent ‘Recovery Scenarios for Ireland’ offers us a glimpse of the ‘nirvana of the return to normal’ – a set of projections that could see the economy, if…

Here is my challenge to the real devaluationists. Will any of them take it up? Real devaluationists claim that, since we can’t devalue our currency, we must devalue other inputs…

Like many people, when I heard that George Lee had been recruited by Fine Gael to stand in the Dublin South by-election I thought that was it – game, set,…

Higher taxation is now on the agenda. The Left has long argued the virtues of higher taxation: more resources for health, education, infrastructural modernisation, childcare, social protection, elder-care, etc. We…

This article was originally written for Irish Left Review Shane Coleman writes: ‘ . . . the reality is that if there was a general election tomorrow and Fine Gael…

I’ve been trying to get away from this topic – the whole deflation thing and its impact on the economy and the budget. There are, after all, a hundred and…