Sunday, Mar 14th 2010
Hugh Green | Lost Boys And Girls
Hugh Green’s excellent post on the Boys of St Columb’s documentary makes a couple of points that are worth highlighting. The now famous Northern Irish men featured - Hume, Heaney, Deane, McCann, Coulter etc, were the first generation to benefit from the 1947 British Act of Parliament which granted [...]
Ireland after NAMA has an interesting blog post which links to Ronan Lyons assumptions about whether those running NAMA have got their assumptions right with regard to the “fall from peak to time-of-tranfer, the yield, and how yields might correct”. The writer goes on to say that “given the drop in land values, the oversupply [...]
The TASC open letter published in the Irish Times on Monday is still providing plenty of food for thought. Focusing on the section of the letter that discusses the prospect of ‘restructuring taxation and expenditure in a progressive and expansionary manner’ Michael Taft expands on what this might entail in terms of taxation.
The phrase ‘fiscal [...]
FT.com / Global insight - Franco-German dynamics make EMF a distant goal
Of course, the idea floated at the weekend by Wolfgang Schäuble is a double-edged weapon. It would give that fund the same very tough tools of conditionality and intervention in the fiscal policies of individual countries as the International Monetary Fund. From the German [...]
The Iceland Weather Report | On the Icelandic Prime Ministers Thoughts on the Referendum tomorrow
Iceland is facing a referendum tomorrow on whether to accept the deal carved out between Iceland, The Netherlands and Britain on the Icesave debt, and its likely to vote no. But will it make any difference. "As if the government wasn’t [...]
Key Trends in the World Economy | Germany’s ‘continental economy’ - comparisons to the US, India and China
John Ross on how Germany's trade figures shows that their economy is 'continental', that is its similiar to the US, India and China as it relies solidly on its European market.
"The fact that Germany is operating in a [...]
On the 24th of February last TASC presented its first “TASC Encounters” evening at the Royal Irish Academy with Fintan O’Toole talking to Mark Mortell, communications consultant and Newstalk 106 presenter. The event proved to be so popular that tickets to attend were quickly scooped up and with limited capacity in the RIA many who [...]
Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers
Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.
Eamon Devoy, General Secretary TEEU outlines background to hunger strike
Eamon Devoy, General Secretary TEEU outlines background to hunger strike from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.
Juan Cole | Harvard Professor’s Modest Proposal: Starve the Gazans into Having Fewer Babies
Cole dismantles Martin Kramer's astonishing claim that forcing the Palestinians to have fewer children by starving them would resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
"Martin Kramer revealed his true colors at the Herzliya Conference, wherein he blamed political violence in the Muslim [...]