Notes on the Front

Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU

Month: April 2011

  • Easter Break

    I am taking a break for the next few days.  Will be back around the first week of May.  Hoping everyone a happy Easter and a celebratory May Day.


  • When Will Employers Start Telling the Truth?

    TASC did something quite unusual, even revolutionary: they looked up the facts. With all the unsubstantiated claims about labour costs, ‘Myths of the Irish Crisis: Wages and Competitiveness’ is truly…


  • If This Isn’t Class War, What Do We Call It?

    I’m usually not partial to terms like ‘class war’ but readers might be able to provide an alternative description to what is happening. First, we find that AIB employees were…


  • Frightening the Children with the Broken-ATM Argument

    There is one argument in the current bank bail-out debate that is getting tiresome. It goes like this: ‘If we do something the ECB doesn’t like they will cut off…


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