Month: January 2010
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Memo to IBEC: Stop Misleading the Debate: The Recession Diaries – January 30th
Yesterday evening I was on Matt Cooper’s The Last Word (5:00 segment) with a representative from IBEC discussing wage levels. I quoted the numbers from the US Bureau of Labor…
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Taking the Country & Western out of Pensions: The Recession Diaries – January 22nd
Life can sometimes be like an American country and western song: ‘My girl friend left me / my dawg bit me in the leg / my mamma joined the army…
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The Government Has a Plan – the Past is Best: The Recession Diaries – January 18th
The Government has a plan. And, yes, you should be worried. The Government’s approach to fiscal stabilisation – namely, a deflationary approach – is often portrayed as ‘the only option’.…
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Starting New Arguments: The Recession Diaries – January 11th
In the last post, I suggested that some of the arguments regarding the relative poverty measurement were starting to be answered. Now let’s start some new arguments – but, as…
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Starting to Settle Some Old Arguments: The Recession Diaries – January 7th
There are a few subjects that are guaranteed to start rows. Public sector pay is always a dead cert. Stimulus is another one. And, of course, relative poverty; as in…
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The Fairground Shell Game: The Recession Diaries – January 4th
The Government announced that the 2010 budget would be the worst and that in subsequent years the level of fiscal contractions – either in pubic expenditure cuts or tax increases…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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