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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)

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 [...]

A SIM game for Nama?

By ⋅ September 4, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

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.

Wanted: a maverick gunslinger to save us from the cowboys

By ⋅ February 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

WANTED: MAVERICK gunslinger to cut down enemies of the State. Year 2010: Tumbleweed blows through the empty streets of the International Financial Services Centre. The once proud little place in the wild west of Europe is almost abandoned. A few nervous survivors squint through cracked glass at the young, fair-haired woman outside. She is wearing [...]

Beware the legalese virus

By ⋅ May 30, 2008 ⋅ One comment

EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS are concerned about the rapid spread of an aggressive virus known as legalese LT08. A close relative of jargonitis, academicspeakis and gobbledegook, the malady has taken hold of European laws and infected civil servants throughout the EU. The virus, mostly found in EU legislation and government publications, attacks the human mind and hijacks [...]

‘Generation Text’ and the skills gap

By ⋅ May 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The Irish Times Business This Week, May 4th 2007 Businesses have identified a significant deficit among employees and are struggling to remedy it, writes Margaret E.Ward Bertie is trying to tell me something. Every time I walk along a street or drive my car, his gaze follows me from those election posters. At home, Bertie [...]

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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