Tesco admits to price manipulation – increasing the price of products before reducing them again as part of a price promotion. I’m shocked. Checkout magazine claimed that Tesco, rather than…

Let’s play a game. Let’s auction off a Euro coin. These are the rules. The Euro goes to the highest bidder. The losing bidder, on top of losing out, has…

I have slightly edited this post from a previous version which mistakenly took a wrong quote from the Irish Times. It’s open season on public sector workers again. The Sunday…

Today there is a protest in O’Connell Street in support of restaurant workers at 12:30 to 2:00 pm. Today the Quick Serve Alliance is going to court to have the…

In a single line buried in today’s Quarterly National Household Survey Report, the CSO just made the future a bit bleaker. In February, the Live Register recorded an unemployment rate…

Given that Ireland’s corporate tax rate is in the news, it is well to get a grip on some facts in the debate. 1. Ireland’s headline tax rate of 12.5…

A number of commentators have referred to the rejoicing of Fine Gael and Labour TDs (even if some were disappointed by Cabinet appointments or lack of).  There is another constituency…

During the campaign, Fine Gael accused Labour of being a high-tax party, based on some artful manipulation of numbers. The fact is that is there was little difference between the…

In the first of a series of posts on the new Programme for Government (PG) I examine the broad fiscal proposals. The first thing that comes out is an alarming…

Long-term unemployment is the worst part of any jobless figures. We can deal with frictional unemployment (a temporary period during which people change jobs). Even short-term unemployment can be dealt…