There is an almighty locomotive train of a consensus coming down the tracks at us: taxation. Many commentators are demanding that tax increases be substantial and immediate. Can this help…

The RTE Prime Time programme last night contained some of the most misleading (to put it mildly) presentation of facts and subsequent analysis to have been aired in a long…

They’re really bringing out the big guns. And they don’t come much bigger than Peter Sutherland – former Attorney General, European Commissioner and Director General of GATT. Already, the media…

In a welcome initiative, TASC – Ireland's leading think tank – has launched a new economics blog: Progressive-Economy.   It features a strong line-up ready to challenge the conservative consensus that is,…

More than 100,000 on the streets in Dublin; if only we had an economic democracy to match our political democracy. Even so, the Sunday Business Post editorial couldn’t help repeating…

Cathal O’Loghlin has done the readers of this blog a favour by putting up his Irish Independent article in the comment section yesterday (I’m assuming ‘Honest Cathal’ is the author). Whichever…

Can you feel it?  Brian has dinner with Sean and Co.  Was one of the Anglo-Irish 10 there breaking bread with the Taoiseach-elect?  And Senator Dan Boyle signals a wobble…

There will be a variety of slogans on placards on the National Demonstration this Saturday: There is a Better Way • Bail Out People, Not Banks • Punish the Corrupt,…

'You do not get it. You are stupid. Do not demonstrate. Do not remonstrate. You are interfering in things you do not understand and you are making matters worse. Go…

One in four people you pass by on the street today have stated they would vote for Labour if an election were held today (well, not exactly – 17 percent…

I don't say this very often but here goes.  Fine Gael has put forward a very positive proposal regarding the banking crisis; and once teased out (and implemented) could see us jump…

I was intending to a piece on the grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented' proposal to flush €7 billion down the recapitalisation toilet but David McWilliams has already outlined why its…

Oh, that speech. One might think the Taoiseach had a Damascus Road conversion – and in front of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce in the Four Seasons Hotel of all…

You know they don’t have a clue; you know they are thrashing about the place grabbing on to any old piece of driftwood in the raging tide; you know we…

I told ya.  Open season on public sector workers – the media is full of it: commentary, vox-pops, interviews that pass for enlightened discussion on the issues of the day. …

It was always going to come down to public sector pay.  There were lengthy discussion on taxation, public expenditure cuts. pension protection, job saving measures.  But the talks in Government…

Thank god – some common sense courtesy of Paul Sweeney (his performance on Saturday Review is worth listening to if you missed it). What other countries are doing – the…

I had intended to treat each of the offerings in the Irish Times ‘What is to be Done’ series individually, hoping that they would provide us with new, innovative ideas.…

It really is surreal.  Hundreds of jobs are going in the banking sector, Retail Excellence Ireland warns that 25,000 jobs could be lost in the first quarter.  The economy is…

So, the Irish Times is going to treat us to a series of articles from our leading economists over the next few days.  They must be serious as they are using…