The Taoiseach is making a big play for ‘middle Ireland’. In an interview with the Irish Times he stated: ‘. . . our basis for participation in this Government is…
The background noise in the public debate is that since inflation is ‘easing off’, prices should start coming down. We have heard this in the coverage over the meeting between…
There is a growing debate over why prices are so high, why prices aren’t falling, what is driving prices. Conor Pope has another instalment in his series on price outrages. …
The President, Michael D. Higgins, has upset some economists. According to a front-page Business Post article entitled ‘Economists round on President over ‘lazy’ and ‘uniformed spiel’: “Economists have rounded on…
Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU