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Monday, September 24, 2007

President Sarkozy calls for increase in European Central Bank key interest rate!!!

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been baiting his compatriot Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank President in recent months to cu...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Hedge Fund Managers, Cold Sweats and Soothing Words from a Psychologist

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The American writer Tom Wolfe termed bondtraders "Masters of the Universe" in his 1987 novel Bonfire of the Vanities . It was the...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Pious Platitudes and Climate Change

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View of rising Earth about five degrees above the Lunar horizon, taken on December 22, 1968 - - This is one of the more famous images of the...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Freeloaders to reduce Air Travel in interests of Planet! Like hell they will!

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Dipak Patel, former Zambian Minister of Commerce, Trade & Industry - - The Irish brought 21 civil servants to Hong Kong - more than five...
Saturday, September 01, 2007

The Irish Media and Economics

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Professor Michael Buckley My attention was recently grabbed by the news that Michael Buckley former Chief Executive of AIB Bank, has been ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Irish Property Obsession, British Landlordism and Myths

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An image from a contemporary publication of the lynching and burning of a black man by an Irish mob in New York City in July 1863, during th...
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Gormley Opposes Incinerators in Ireland but Supports Export of Irish Hazardous Waste for Incineration

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IRISH HAZARDOUS WASTE EXPORT DESTINATIONS 2004 - - John Gormley, TD, Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

Three Top Irish Tech Firms Report Losses but which Firms Export More than €12 billion each year?

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The Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr John Hegarty (left) presents Chris Horn of IONA Technologies with the TCD Innovation Award in Sept...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Irish Whiskey - A Lost Opportunity to Create Global Brands of Economic Significance for Ireland

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John Jameson Distillery was founded by Scotsman John Jameson who had married into the Haig family, distillers of Scotch whisky. His son marr...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Aer Lingus' Dermot Mannion should tell the likes of Willie O'Dea where to get off

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Aer Lingus Chief Executive Dermot Mannion These are testing times for Aer Lingus Chief Executive Dermot Mannion and in the interest of the ...
Monday, August 13, 2007

What do citizens want from the European Union?

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The 50th anniversary logo of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, in the Irish language. Many citizens are confused and bewild...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Hell at Heathrow and Panic at Shannon - A Victim in Search of a Regional Policy

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There has been much attention in the UK media in recent times about what is termed "Heathrow Hassle," or more conventionally hell....
Sunday, August 05, 2007

Principles and Irish Politics: Eoghan Harris and John Gormley

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The appointment of former Marxist Eoghan Harris by Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern to Seanad &#201ireann, the Upper House of the...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Bank of Ireland's Wealth of the Nation Report 2007: Tough Times in Japan - the Wealthiest Nation on Earth

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Katsuaki Watanabe, President, Toyota Motor Corporation Bank of Ireland Private Banking published its annual Wealth of the Nation Report to...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Top Fund Manager Pours Scorn on the Grab-all Superearners at the top of the US Economic Pyramid

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Source: PIMCO Bonds An FT/Harris poll published on Monday shows that popular backlash against globalisation and the leaders of the world...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

Forty Years on from San Francisco's Summer of Love and Challenge to Conventional Prejudice in UK

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Forty years ago, it was the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the anthem of the hippie generation San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers i...