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