Following on from last night’s news that the Irish Government have decided to nationalise Anglo Irish Bank Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole got Michael Taft, of Notes on the Front blog, and Irish Left Review, Stephen Kinsella, Economics Lecturer in UL, blogger and recent ILR contributor and Gerald O’Neill, an economist who also blogs at [...]

Last week, in interview with a More 4 journalist, Mark Regev, one of Ehud Olmert’s spokespeople, admitted that Israel knew and had officially recorded the fact that Hamas had not broken the ceasefire between the two regions and, further, that the Israelis were also aware that Hamas had made attempts to prevent other, small groups [...]

Those were the days, my friend!
There is a well-known story in the apocryphal Gospel According to Saint Shaznay, which tell how, one day, when Our Lord Jesus was just 12 years old, Our Lady chance upon him hiding in the reeds along the bank of the small stream that run close by their home. At [...]

Ever get that sinking feeling - like your tied down to the railway tracks and the train is coming around the bend? And your rescuers - they’re actually waving the train on. Yes, in times like these it takes a brave soul who can kick back and party.
In recent days we have been [...]

The late, great monetary economist Hyman Minsky (1986:110), quoting Nobellist James Tobin, once wrote of economics theory that:
“the terms in which a problem is stated and in which the relevant information is organised can have a great influence on the solution”.
Minsky goes on to write:
“But the way the problem is stated and the identification of [...]

The newspaper articles read like war reports - from the economic front-line on which we are all trapped The new CSO figures on unemployment confirm this. Already, leading economists are suggesting the jobless rate could exceed 12 percent by year’s end, making projections made only last week already out of date.
It’s depressing enough [...]