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Happy 1st anniversary to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac govt bailout
Can you believe it? Sept 7th marks the one year anniversary of the American government’s decision to takeover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. At that point they owed, or guaranteed almost HALF of the United States’ $12 trillion mortgage market. The bailout nationalised them. Some commentators said this nationalisation marked the end of American as a capitalist country. But, as I’ve said [...]
Is capitalism dead?
This was the subject of yesterday’s Leviathan at Electric Picnic. www.leviathan.ie As usual, David McWilliam’s was the charming, entertaining MC and he put some tough questions to the panel: brave-for-showing-his-face-instead-of-Fianna-Fail Green Party TD Eamon Ryan; socialist, journalist and activist Eamon (get out the pikestaffs for the revolution) McCann; journalist and author Dan O’Brien of The Economist Intelligence [...]
A SIM game for Nama?
Remember the computer simulation game SimCity in the early 1990s? The objective of SimCity was to build and design a city either without specific goals or towards certain scenarios. The game allowed you to see what would happen in the future based on your specific choices and performance when playing. You also controlled the speed at which time passed. For example, if as [...]
Re-imagining your nation
Stop wringing your hands in despair and think about a brand new Ireland. What would you like it to be?
Nama-lama-ding-dong
Let’s give the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) a name that represents what it really is… a nonsensical, half-baked take on an Irish problem. Shoo-be-doo-bop a loo bop!
House of cards falls for property developer Liam Carroll
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0811/breaking6.htm Watch the Irish property market going down, down, down….
The cost of “Keeping up with the Fitzpatricks”
Ireland needs a drastic shift in cultural attitudes – away from entitlement and towards personal responsibility. The arrogant aristocracy has made taxpayers as cheap as chips.
Students’ advice for Irish government
Lectured some university students today in News Reporting and asked them to talk directly to the government – using Post-It notes. After class, I was going on BBC2 NI’s show Hearts and Minds as a guest along with Martin Mansergh. I told them I would give them to him after the show. It didn’t happen [...]
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