Writing in clear English: top ten tips

Want to write clearly, right from the start? Then you need to plan, write and edit in equal measure. Here are Clear Ink’s top tips for getting your message across.  www.clearink.ie
Writing and speaking are tools for communicating a message. That’s it. Yet so many things – jargon, legalese, academic-speak, overly formal or informal language, too [...]

Leviathan at the Electric Picnic

Looks like capitalist culture is not dead!

Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?

September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then?
Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much.  Today he told an audience in downtown New [...]

Food Politics

What you should eat, and what companies want you to eat, are not necessarily the same thing.

The year the media died?

Is it all over?

Erin go broke

Paul Krugman has a depressing take on the Irish Ecomomy in the New York Times.

Ways to cut costs without killing your business

It was a 5AM start on Friday morning for a trip to the TV3 studios for a segment on  Ireland AM called “Ways to cut your costs without killing your business.”

Mansergh vs. Ward on BBC2 NI “Hearts and Minds”: Youtube

Martin Mansergh, junior minister for Finance, and I had a very lively discussion on the telly last night. We were, of course, talking about the economy. He was a nice man but he was completely unprepared.

Our lovely interviewer Noel said we’d just have a nice discussion but
it quickly turned into a row. I suggested that [...]

Anglo debacle in pictures

Anglo in pictures

40 questions looking for answers..from government, regulator and banksters

Anglo
Directors’ loans
1. How much did Seanie & co borrow? Who authorised it?

2. What did they use it for?
a.      Did they buy shares, debt or CFDs?
b.     Did they use money to manipulate the share price in some way?
c.     What were the terms of the loan? Was it secured?
d.     Did they deceive shareholders and potential investors?
e.      [...]