Month: April 2010
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It’s the Reverse Vampires! It’s the Reverse Vampires! – The Recession Diaries. April 28th
How fortunate we are to have a Government that knows what it is doing in these times of economic and fiscal crisis. And even more fortunate that we have commentators…
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The Great Fiscal Shell Game. The Recession Diaries – April 22nd
The only enjoyable aspect of Eurostat’s decision to reclassify the Anglo-Irish Bank subsidy as a liability on the General Government Balance/Debt is to watch the Government’s hands move even faster…
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How Not To Spend Your Way Out of a Recession. The Recession Diaries – April 19th
An economy relying on consumer spending to drive a recovery is an economy that will be eventually be disappointed. Not that consumption cannot play a vital role. Indeed, businesses dependent…
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Anyone Notice? The Recession Diaries – April 16th
There’s a problem with the way reports are covered in our media. Take the recent ESRI Spring Quarterly Commentary, for example. The demands on journalists to cover a statistically-dense 85…
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Change the Game or Resign. The Recession Diaries – April 14th
We either change the game or resign ourselves to it. The latter course is easy. We can veil our resignation in all sorts of good intentions and sincere aspirations. The…
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Shhh. Rewrite at Work. The Recession Diaries – April 12th
The Government insisted on inserting the following phrase into the proposed public sector pay deal: ‘The implementation of this Agreement is subject to no currently unforeseen budgetary deterioration.’ Now the…
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Taking a Break
Apologies for being off-line for the last coupe of weeks. Will be back on April 10th. And there's so much to get back into to: bank bail-outs, the publc sector…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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