Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism, Irish Economy, Property on Jul 30th, 2010 No Comments »
I see that the Now is a Good Time to Buy [NIAGTTB] crowd are back to sending out press releases. All bottoming out and slowdown in declines.
The usual suspects are saying that an average house price of €201,364 equals a kind of stability to the market. Well, it doesn’t. Given the type of employment we […]
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Economy on Jul 21st, 2010 20 Comments »
Jesus man, the ESRI. What the hell has happened to them?
A couple of weeks ago they came out and said “We don’t know what we are talking about.”
And today, Paul Krugman has come out and said, “Ye don’t know what ye are talking about.”
I’ve criticised Krugman in the past for taking at face value the […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Times on Jul 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Dan O’Brien’s tough and uncompromising collection of stuff he has pulled out of his ass, has just been launched.
You can get a sense of Dan O’Brien’s analysis over on Irish Left Review.
There are some more quotes here.
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Economy on Jul 21st, 2010 6 Comments »
In a speech made at a business meeting of the Dublin Rotary Club last night, the Tánaiste Mary Coughlan said that the government had developed a new plan to get the economy working again.
‘There is too much negativity around these days’ she said, ‘and this needs to be nipped in the bud right away.’
‘That’s why […]
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism on Jul 15th, 2010 4 Comments »
There was no general restriction of credit by the Irish banks to Irish business men or to potential housebuyers, a representative of the banks said yesterday. There was, however, a more careful examination of all applications, and particularly of credits for purely speculative purposes, which were examined in the light of the economic situation and […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Middle Class on Jul 7th, 2010 5 Comments »
I don’t really get Twitter, but I noticed that Irish Left Review sent this one out yesterday:
My god, @davidmcw is recycling his Ethelred the Unready opener again http://bit.ly/bvbUXL. See this http://bit.ly/99hRK5 for details.
To which McWilliams replied:
@irishleftreview …and i will use it again and again and again because it is wonderfully vivid
Well good for you […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, fuckwits, Irish journalism, Irish Times on May 17th, 2010 2 Comments »
I was reading Michael Taft’s post on Progressive Economy today, where he was talking about the economic nonsense of a certain Chris Johns, chief executive of Bank of Ireland Asset Management.
Johns has written an article for the Sunday Business Post, telling us all that we can’t raise taxes any further, and that we just […]
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism, Economy, Irish Economy on May 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »
For more crystal quotes and masterful insights from Dan O’Brien, check out here.
Posted in Irish property bubble, fuckwits, Irish journalism on Apr 25th, 2010 4 Comments »
The original 2007 article by Brendan O’Connor is available here.
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism on Apr 24th, 2010 1 Comment »
Thanks to John Green for the ups on xtranormal.