With more interest being expressed (finally, finally) in growth rates, what are the forecasters saying. Well, Ernst & Young forecasts have just been published and their numbers are bad. They are worse than bad. They are so bad you’d wonder how it could get any worse. And the problem is - they are not alone.
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Ah, a phrase we will be hearing throughout the next few weeks of wonderful, joyous (albeit, Ireland-less) World Cup football. It’s also an apt phrase for the reporting of economic reviews. IBEC has produced its quarterly commentary and the media was full of green-shoots:
‘Ibec has revised upwards its economic forecasts for 2010 and 2011 . [...]

175 Boston Scientific jobs to go in Galway, the loss of 200 Bitech Engineering jobs in Louth,a seismic 750 job lost at Halifax, those depressing numbers that Ronan Lyons has pulled up - what are we to make of the state of the labour market only a few weeks into the new year?
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Following the St. Stephen’s Day sales there was much commentary to the effect that huge shopping crowds were signs of a new confidence resulting from the Government’s budget. We were waiting for tough action, we got tough action and now we are off in the shops with our credit cards. How the recently released Retail [...]