The RTE Prime Time programme last night contained some of the most misleading (to put it mildly) presentation of facts and subsequent analysis to have been aired in a long time. Make no mistake about…
Monthly Archives For February 2009
Stay away from bad banks and risk insurance | Karl Whelan
Stay away from bad banks and risk insurance | Karl Whelan The government should avoid the bad bank model, which seems be gaining ground in government. The bad bank idea is attractive to bankers because…
US Gov making the same mistakes as the Japanese | Adam Posen
US Gov making the same mistakes as the Japanese | Adam Posen "Pretending that distressed assets are worth more than they actually are today for regulatory purposes persuades no one besides the regulators, and just…
Back to the 80s: Trichet’s Narrow Notions of Competitiveness
Paul Sweeney, Economic advisor to ICTU, got to shake the hand of the 5th most powerful man in the world, Jean Claude Trichet, yesterday – although he was a little reluctant to do so. In…
The Swedish Experience – Lessons to be Learned?
As a welcome to the new TASC economic blog progressive-economy@tasc and to acknowledge the first year of Irish Left Review all this week we are publishing one post every day from the new blog. In…
Report on gay marriage in Ireland
Report on gay marriage in Ireland MarriagEquality's report in pdf: A staggering 81%, or eight out of ten people believe that all people living in Ireland should receive equal treatment from the state regardless of…
LRB · Perry Anderson: An Entire Order Converted into What It Was Intended to End
LRB · Perry Anderson: An Entire Order Converted into What It Was Intended to End Perry Anderson is looking back at the past decade of Italian politics. Some fascinating information here, including the way that…
The perversion of humanitarian activities | unsettling economics
The perversion of humanitarian activities | unsettling economics The United States has a long history of using humanitarian ventures as a cover for promoting its own self-interest. Here is an examplefrom the early 20th century…
Financial Implosion and Stagnation – Monthly Review
Financial Implosion and Stagnation – Monthly Review John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff on the economic crisis. Its the most thorough historical analysis of the crisis around, but the conclusion is the kicker: "In the…
Demand (for solutions) will generate supply – in long term
As a welcome to the new TASC economic blog progressive-economy@tasc and to acknowledge the first year of Irish Left Review all this week we are publishing one post every day from the new blog. Today’s…
LENIN'S TOMB: Badiou on Le Petit Nicolas
LENIN’S TOMB: Badiou on Le Petit Nicolas Richard Seymour on Alain Badiou on Nicolas Sarkozy: "Sarkozy himself is important only inasmuch as he embodies the spirit of reaction, even if it is a dwarfish embodiment…
The Pension Levy is Unfair
Writing in the Irish Economy blog Karl Whelan has a quibble about the argument that developed between Fintan O’Toole and Martin Cullen while discussing the pension levy on Questions and Answers last Monday evening. Specifically,…
Revealing Assumptions of Former Civil Servant
As a welcome to the new TASC economic blog progressive-economy@tasc and to acknowledge the first year of Irish Left Review all this week we are publishing one post every from the new blog. Today is…
Interview with former Knesset Leader Avraham Burg
Interview with former Knesset Leader Avraham Burg In a SPIEGEL interview, former Knesset president Avraham Burg, member of the left wing Meretz party, discusses the right-wing surge in elections, the "monopoly of the Holocaust" on…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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