As a reprise of their considerable study of the Irish media’s part in helping to pump up the Irish property bubble, The Media and the Banking Bailout, David Manning and Miriam Cotton of MediaBite have…
Monthly Archives For May 2009
Paul Ginsborg: Undermining Democracy – The case of Silvio Berlusconi
Paul Ginsborg: Undermining Democracy – The case of Silvio Berlusconi
Irish financial regulation and the media
Irish financial regulation and the media Michael Hennigan of Finfacts on the accusation that the media is stoking up hysteria around poor regulation and the wrecklessness of the banking sector: “Irish financial regulation has been…
Changing work permits | The Irish Times Editorial – Thu, May 28, 2009
Changing work permits | The Irish Times Editorial – Thu, May 28, 2009 The Government has found a way to reduce the number of unemployed in Ireland. Make it extremely difficult for immigrants who may…
May 28th Lunchtime: The Recession Diaries
Over at Cedar Lounge Revolution, WBS is doing a good job tracking the ongoing campaign against Ireland’s borrowing capacity and, in particular, the performance of the National Treasury Management Agency. On a recent post, I…
Tomgram | Andy Kroll, Six Ways the Financial Bailout Scams Taxpayers
Tomgram | Andy Kroll, Six Ways the Financial Bailout Scams Taxpayers Seven months in, the bailout’s impact is unclear. The Treasury Department has used the recent “stress test” results it applied to 19 of the…
FEAR OF A MUSLIM PLANET: Hip-Hop's Hidden History
FEAR OF A MUSLIM PLANET: Hip-Hop’s Hidden History The Muslim connection with hip hop and why its ignored. “The most recent oversight, Jeff Chang’s exhaustive hip-hop history Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop (Picador, 2005) pays only…
The Predator State | James K. Galbraith
The Predator State | James K. Galbraith The idea of class struggle goes back a long way; perhaps it really is “the history of all hitherto existing society,” as Marx and Engels famously declared. But…
The Renewal of Democracy: An Interview with Paul Ginsborg
Paul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Florence and a frequent public commentator on politics and life in Italy. His books include A History of Contemporary Italy, Society and Politics 1943 –…
LRB | John Lanchester: It's Finished
LRB | John Lanchester: It’s Finished In what I think is one of those landmark articles on the financial crisis and the great banking smash John Lanchester provides a number of killer facts. Here’s one…
May 25th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Boy, was Senator Fergal Quinn taken in. Or was he? In his recent column, ‘Getting people work a priority’ he attempts to make two real-life comparisons – one based on a letter he received and…
Ask a Man Who Knows!!
You Can Trust Me, Sir. I’m a Priest. One of the upsides to all this kerfuffle about sexual abuse and the clergy is that it will lay to rest forever the argument that priests are…
Why Wage Cuts Are Not a Good Thing
This is an excerpt of Professor Terrence McDonough’s post on Progressive Economy in which he provides five reasons why falling wage rates will not help the economy and concludes that we must find ways of…
DCTV and Looking Left: The Irish People
DCTV, a recently established community-access television station, has produced the first of its four planned programs in it’s Looking Left series. Using a panel based discussion format it examines Irish alternative media and left-wing publications…
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