Chatting with the #occupiers of Dame Street has been interesting, if not very revealing. What seems to be happening is that they: know that something is wrong and, know that they are not happy. What then seems to happen is that the #occupiers then interpolate these two facts and...
“Irish self-fascination is not productive and contributes to extremes in sentiment – hubris during the tiger year when Ireland knew best and self-loathing now as some believe the country is worst for everything. The truth is that all countries are unique. There is nothing uniquely unique about Ireland.” Dan...
Manufacturing in Ireland has been characterized by three threads of development. There are: The State/Semi-State Sector. The Indigenous Manufacturers The Foreign Direct Investment Manufacturers From the formation of the state Ireland has suffered from an industrial deficit. This situation has often been exacerbated by transformations in the global economy and...
Our problems are great; we have a banking crisis where a housing boom has blown a hole though our banking system, and the economy itself. There is a deficit crisis, which has arisen out of taxation system, which taxed, certain, narrow parts of the economy too heavily while expanding the...
Before we joined the Euro, twenty odd years ago, with the Maastricht Treaty and European Monetary Union we, along with many of our European neighbours joined with each other to create the Euro. When we joined, we all agreed to the terms of the growth and stability pact because everybody...
The bond markets are irrelevant now that the IMF are in the game. When the IMF offer funds it is as a funder of last resort. Realistically, no other lender will touch a country so long as an IMF funding programme is in place as the presence of the IMF...
We’re in the midst of three crises 1) a deficit crisis – caused by fifteen years of marketing oriented politics. 2) a banking crisis caused by us electing bullshit artists, and, 3) a Euro crisis, which has much more to do with Germany than it has to do with Ireland. We’re...
Ideas is neither good nor bad, they, like any tool, are either useful or useless. The Freedom Institute’s/Libertas’s/The National Alliance’s assertions about faith are the opposite of an ab hominum attack. They argue that an idea is correct simply because the intention, the impulse behind the idea, is correct. John...