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Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Greek and European debt crisis

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The following is from an Irish Economy Blog thread on an article in The Wall Street Journal: It’s odd that two academics could produce su...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Finnish ice hockey team heroes return home drunk

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After winning the Ice Hockey World Championships, many players of the Finnish ice hockey team returned home drunk this month. The Finns a...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Jon Stewart: La Cage Aux Fools and Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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Jon Stewart on The Daily Show responded to supporters of Dominique Strauss-Kahn such as Ben Stein, who is lawyer, actor, newspaper columnist...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Irish Men without Work

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Brendan Walsh, emeritus professor of economics at UCD, writes in the Irish Economy Blog that the rise in the Irish unemployment rate reveals...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Ireland's anti-banker chameleons: Shane Ross and David McWilliams

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Time magazine reported in April 1973 that the Nixon Administration had developed a new language—a kind of Nix-speak. Government officials w...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Getting paid for creative work: US Video; F*ck You. Pay Me

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Speaker at the March 2011 San Francisco, CreativeMornings ( creativemornings.com ) was Mike Monteiro, Design Director, and co-founder of Mul...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ireland's unfair society of insiders and outsiders

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Ireland is no longer a society mainly marked by the division between rich and poor but it is an unjust society of insiders and outsiders. ...
Sunday, April 03, 2011

Facts, Ireland and the Euro

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Aengus Fanning, the editor, has an article in today’s Sunday Independent: ‘We need leaders who will ignore the eurobabble and just say no’ ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Irish professors say enough of spending cuts; Status quo is a comfortable place

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Karl Whelan, professor of economics at UCD in South Dublin argues that enough has been cut and he claims to have taken a 30% cut in salary ...

Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine

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What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Master statistician Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. ...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Milton Friedman on Greed

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Milton Friedman was an American economist who became an icon of the conservative movement and he was interviewed in 1979 on a chat show pre...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ireland: GDP or GNP? Which is the better measure of economic performance?

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UPDATE Sept 09, 2014: The idiot/ eejit's guide to distorted Irish national economic data UPDATE: May 26, 2013 : In recent years, Ac...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Irish National Debt: Public spending was 57.3% of GNP in 2009; Deficits in 2008-2013 will amount to €95bn

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University College Cork (UCC) economist, Seamus Coffey, estimated last December that with GDP (gross domestic product) measured at €159.6bn ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Ireland and Iceland: Did Devaluation boost Iceland's Exports?

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The following is a contribution to a thread on the Irish Economy Blog, comparing Iceland and ireland during the Great Recession. Iceland’s...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Ireland, unilateral debt default and worst case scenarios

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A thread on the Irish Economy blog (see below) in response to an article this wee, in the Financial Times by its economics commentator Marti...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

2010 US Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony

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President Obama presents 13 exceptional individuals with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Honorees include former President George H.W. Bu...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Irish debt default and 'burning' bondholders

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The European Central Bank opposes cutting the debt of senior bank bondholders because of the fear of contagion across the Eurozone; many Iri...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Ireland when cost of 1 Dublin house would buy 9 similar in Houston, Texas

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In 2006, an international survey compared over 300 metro areas using the standard of a 2,200 square foot, 4 bedroom, 2 ½ bath home that woul...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Seven things you should never do on Facebook

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Stuart Miles of Yahoo! News says there are some things that you should never do on social networking site, Facebook: Click here
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Ireland: Debt default on sovereign and bank debt or not?

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Apart from an adjustment of the interest rate in the EU-IMF bailout terms, agreement with the European Commission and European Central Bank ...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

Irish General Election 2011: The 'Democracy Now' soufflé

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Sarah's Carey's op-ed article in today's The Irish Times: Angry men lack the courage of conviction This is my comment: This...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Michael Lewis on the financial crashes in Ireland, Greece and Iceland

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Former bond trader, Michael Lewis, author of "Liar’s Poker," "The Big Short" and "The Blind Side," has wr...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Sovereign debt exposure and confusing Bank for International Settlements data

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We shouldn’t be confused by the ‘facts’! Bank for International Settlements data is often quoted in relation to sovereign debt exposures b...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Irish General Election 2011: Irish Waste Policy and Gombeenism

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The Fernwärmewerk Spittelau incinerator/heating plant, Vienna. It supplies more than a quarter of a million houses and over 5,000 industri...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Irish Jobs and FDI

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Irish jobs in the exporting FDI (foreign direct investment) sector are back to 1997 levels. Every time Tesco opens a new shop, the United...