‘Cause I don’t. Commissioner Rehn announces on Sunday that he ‘strongly’ supports the Government’s National Recovery Plan. He even said: Implementing the plan will offer a “sound basis for stable,…

It is understandable that a large section of the population welcomes the coming of the IMF and the EU. They can’t do any worse at running our economy and banks…

When journalists arrive at Government Buildings for the launch of the 4-year 'plan' they will have many questions on their mind.  Here's one that should be asked. The Irish economy…

The antger I'm referring to is not about the meltdown in my broadband, my modem, my phone line – which has kept me off-line for the last two weeks. After…

When the CSO’s industrial production numbers were produced there was a sense among some commentary that at least this side of the economic equation is producing plus signs. But they…

The ESRI's Autumn commentary (full commentary available on November 21st) was just one big writedown for 2011. From the three months previous, they revised downwards the following: GDP: from 2.7…

In early 2009 a number of commentators, analysts and economists claimed if we cut public spending, raised general taxes – if we took the pain 'up-front' – then we'd get…

Apologies for being away so long – workload and such.Will be attempting to provide some insight into the issues facing us (IMF receivership, the apocalypse) in more bite-sized contributions. That’s…