Posted in Economy on Oct 5th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’m hoping to write a post on some of things I am reading at the moment which puts the current news cycle in some context, but while fishing through Denis O’Hearn’s The Atlantic economy: Britain, the US and Ireland for a quote I came across this explanation for why Ireland’s GNP, commonly explained as the […]
Posted in Economy on Oct 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
From Bloomberg:
Germany will make its last payment on Oct. 3 for bonds issued after World War I to pay for reparations and strengthen the economy, the Associated Press reported.
Payment on the bonds, suspended during the Nazi era, was rescheduled under a 1953 international agreement, the news service said.
Payment on about 150 million euros ($205 million) […]
Posted in Economy, dublin, Irish working Class Culture on Oct 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Dole TV - Program 02 from DCTV on Vimeo.
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Economy, Banks on Sep 30th, 2010 3 Comments »
[to be sung to the tune of the Hudson Dusters as played by the Sick and Indigent Song Club.]
When the Anglo Cowen cocaine garrison
Wreak their devastation
The soldiers of Destiny whiskey garrison
Cry the Irish nation
We all go grab our chains and rattle them
Pray for your salvation
We all go grab our chains and rattle them
Cry the Irish […]
Posted in Economy on Sep 23rd, 2010 2 Comments »
Thanks to Donnacha O’Briain for the link.
Posted in EU, Economy, Ireland on Sep 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
Protest on the first day of the re-opening of the Dáil as part of the September 29th, European Day of Action called by the European Trade Union Confederation.
The 29th September marks an international day of protest that has been called by the European Trade Union Confederation against the policies being pursued by across the continent […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Economy, Irish Society, Irish Economy on Sep 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Topics: Iceland, the Euro, and the EU; The crisis of the Irish economy; Corporate Influence and Lobbying: Who really makes policy in Ireland and the EU?; Challenges for the Irish public service today; Gender, class, and the economy in Ireland.
Speakers: Ragnar Arnalds (Former Minister for Finance, Iceland), Paula Clancy, Tom O’Connor, Niamh Brennan, Brian Denny, […]
Posted in Marxism, Economy on Aug 31st, 2010 No Comments »
There are many explanations for the crisis of capital that began in 2007. But the one thing missing is an understanding of “systemic risks.”
I was alerted to this when Her Majesty the Queen visited the London School of Economics and asked the prestigious economists there how come they had not seen the crisis coming. […]
Posted in Economy on Aug 21st, 2010 No Comments »
I’m working this weekend on an article for Look Left, which will be about employment and unemployment in Northern Ireland and the Republic.
In March 2010 the services sector was the largest provider of jobs in Northern Ireland, accounting for 82 per cent of the total.
In terms of population, Northern Ireland’s public sector is the […]
Posted in Economy on May 20th, 2010 1 Comment »
Simon Johnson is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and considering that organization’s history of imposing austerity measures for the support it provides and condemning ‘emerging’ countries to decades of economic misery in order to support the banks in the developed world that got them into the mess in the first place […]
