Friday, Jan 27th 2012
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 provided another analysis of how the mainstream media in Ireland is now, in the wake of the disaster that they [...]
Paul Ginsborg: Undermining Democracy - The case of Silvio Berlusconi
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 under the spotlight this week with the Financial Services Consultative Consumer Panel, which was appointed by the Minister for Finance, saying in [...]
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 have lost their job to stay here. This has to be challenged:
“The Government has repeatedly stated the importance of the integration [...]
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 agreed but received this challenge from barratree:
Michael, - I’ve yet to see you addressing the point that most people are [...]
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 nation’s largest banks to suggest that the worst might be over; yet the International Monetary Fund as well as economists like [...]
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 fleeting attention to the Muslim connection. Elsewhere in mainstream media, the Muslim connection is never spoken aloud, even in the middle of [...]
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 if the world is ruled by a monied elite, then to what extent do middle-class working Americans compose part of the [...]
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 - 1988 , Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society and the State , 1980-2000, and the bestselling biography Berlusconi: Television, [...]
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 that is dropped in after a short history of the Royal Bank of Scotland:
“Fast-forward 300 years, and RBS is today, by [...]
