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Will Ireland concede on Irish corporation tax? Interviewed on BBC World Service “World Business Report”

By ⋅ December 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

BBC World Service “World Business Report” asked me “What will Ireland say if EU leaders insists it increases its corporation tax rate in line with other European countries?” BBC World Service “World Business Report” (mp3)

Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson forecasts Ireland”s post-bailout future in our Newstalk interview

By ⋅ March 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Part 1 of a Newstalk interview.

Newstalk interview with author of Ireland and the Global Question, Michael O’Sullivan

By ⋅ February 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Chat with the author of Ireland and the Global Question about Ireland’s managed default. Listen!

Nobel Prize-winning economist says NO to Nama

By ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Nama is a bad idea said Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, on Wednesday night while addressing Trinity College’s historical society. Nama is likely to “burden this generation for 25 to 50 years or more. I am very uncomfortable with a government with such a minority support making such a decision.”  The view that there is no alternative is “just [...]

Help me, Obi-Wan Gormley; you’re my only hope.

By ⋅ September 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yes, I said it to Minister Eamon Ryan during Leviathan at the Electric Picnic but I will say it again. Green Party, you must get some balls. For all our sakes, be brave – leave this government while you still have a soul.  If you do not understand that then let me take on the persona of [...]

Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?

By ⋅ September 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Re-imagining your nation

By ⋅ September 4, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Stop wringing your hands in despair and think about a brand new Ireland. What would you like it to be?

Nama-lama-ding-dong

By ⋅ August 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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!

The cost of “Keeping up with the Fitzpatricks”

By ⋅ March 6, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

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.

Sub-prime time or Abbatoir of debt

By ⋅ April 16, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Fresh meat is needed to feed the insatiable appetite of the international abattoir of debt. Our Government has been waving a big juicy carcass in the air – your mortgages – for some time, writes Margaret E. Ward. Recently, the scent was picked up by lenders to the credit-troubled. These sub-prime lenders are flooding into [...]

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