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Monday, April 27, 2009

Irish Golden Fleece Award - - Minister still a teacher after 20 years on leave!!

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Ministers Mary Hanafin and Micheál Martin, flanking former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 2007 For their brass necks and shameless greed, the Iri...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

CNBC gives Financial Advice! UPDATE

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A showdown between a comedian who the FT says has become one of America’s most challenging news commentators and a news commentator known fo...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Ireland: Scapegoating the Euro - Giving Reckless Poltroon Politicians a Pass

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Some Irish people besides economic illiterates, suggest that the euro is the primary reason for Ireland's economic woes. This claim is r...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Real-Time Economics - - Wall Street Journal

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Get the Real Time Economics : Treasury's Financial-Bail widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Economic insight and...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Benchmarking of 9% still leaves Irish Public Sector in the Money after Cuts

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The average so-called benchmarking increase for Irish public service staff was 9%. The "benchmarking" scheme was shown to have be...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Anglo Irish Bank seizure - a gift to Fianna Fáil's developer friends with support of Planet Bertie man Gormley?

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Anglo Irish Bank closed at 22 euro cent on the Irish Stock Exchange, on its last day of trading before becoming a State-owned bank. On Febr...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Newspapers, the Web and IBM Syndrome

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In early October, some attendees at the American Magazine Conference, in San Francisco, took a side trip to the offices of a significant med...
Friday, October 17, 2008

"Independent" TD Finian McGrath took his "eye off the ball"

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Non-party TD Finian McGrath who calls himself an "independent," sold his vote to Fianna Fáil after the last election in return fo...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Cowen's Trip to China- Marketing Spin has already Begun

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The Opening Ceremonies of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing, China, August 8, 2008 -- Fireworks light the sky above the latticed steel National Sta...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Irish Economy - End of the Celtic Tiger and Credit where it's Due

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Dan McLaughlin, Bank of Ireland economist with Health Minister Mary Harney T.D. at a Women In Banking and Finance (WIBF) Ireland forum in 20...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Putin and his Irish admirers

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Tom McGurk It's no big surprise that the harshest critics of American foreign policy and many more, show indifference to other conflicts...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Irish Media: Top earning journalists promote anti-EU position; Some question the benefits of being in the Eurozone

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It's interesting that most of the top earning Irish journalists have taken an anti-EU position and some are also against the Euro - - Br...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Well-fed John Gormley: Anti-Science on GM Foods - Pro-Science on Climate Change

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The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, arrives in Sydney in April 2004, to promote a future free from genetically engineered (GE) food. ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

US foreclosures and the hard times towards the top of the pyramid

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Last month it was reported that more than one million American homes were in in foreclosure - the process that more often than not ends up i...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Democracy and the grip on the Public Megaphone

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In the aftermath of the Irish defeat of the Lisbon Treaty ratification proposal in a referendum, it has been suggested that European politic...
Sunday, June 01, 2008

The useless [Expletive Deleted] at the Irish National Consumer Agency

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President McAleese presents Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD with the Seal of Office of Taoiseach at Áras an Uachtaráin Last month the new Taoiseac...

Irish Trade Missions and Manufacturing Good News

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Given the apparent success of Irish trade missions, we should surely have lots more of them in these difficult times. Until recently, we had...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Economics Forecasting and the Irish Economy as oil price heads for $200 a barrel

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Economics and financial forecasts have a dubious reputation for a reason. In both finance and economics, just consider the record of the pu...