Get a more considered and data-heavy presentation of the key issues surrounding today’s crucial budget at Ronan Lyons’ blog and of course Irish Economy. Here’s a list of ten things Minister Lenihan has to get right.
Oddly, for me, I’d like to rein in the rant on this budget. It’s crucial we do so, because the [...]
EC4004 students will remember Dr Aidan Kane’s guest lecture a few weeks ago, slides here, when he suggested that Ireland was fiscally dans la merde, and this situation would get worse once the November tax returns are in.
Guess what? They’re in. Here the figures are, and they are not pretty reading. We are 7,894,761 euros in [...]
Arthur Laffer is a rare economist. He has lived to see his theories enacted as policy at the highest level over many years, and those theories have been shown, everywhere they’ve been tried, to be false. Here he is debating Peter Schiff two years ago.
Listen to what both men are saying, and ask yourself, with [...]