Tag: economics
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Ireland’s Elephants
We need to talk about elephants. White, in the room, dancing It doesn’t matter , elephants are where it is at. However, rather than ascertaining how to manage, evade and if needed cull same, our government, which resembles an elephants graveyard of hope, is goading and ignoring.
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Lets make England’s Brexit led education difficulty our opportunity
Theresa May’s plans for Brexit may have suffered a setback after campaigners won their high court battle over her decision not to seek parliamentary approval before starting the process. Nevertheless, any move by the UK to leave the EU is likely to pose significant challenges. If it is hard, as favoured by the British prime…
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Post Apple, time to rethink FDI policy
Regardless of whether or not an appeal should or should not be taken by the Irish government in relation to the Apple tax ruling, apple themselves will of course appeal. We should not mistake the individual issue, whether Apple did or did not get illegal state aid, for the broader issue of Ireland’s over reliance…
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Whats wrong with ticket touting anyway?
The recent events in Rio have brought the issue of ticket reselling, also called touting or scalping, to the minds of many. Without getting into the issue at hand, which is under legal investigation, it raises some interesting questions. Why are some trades seen as repugnant exchanges and others not? How should we decide?
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Common travel area or common labour market – another brexit conundrum.
So, a problem Ireland faces in the fallout of Brexit is the issue of the Common Travel Area.
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Who do you trust and why does it matter?
Would you trust a banker? Stop laughing now…you there, in the back, stop it… Now, seriously, would you? More to the point perhaps, would a banker trust you? And what matter if they did or didn’t? Generalising, how much trust do you place in your business partners up and down the supply chain? In others…
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Economists and Climate
People often wonder what use are economists. In terms of climate change this is particularly appropriate. Most economists are not very absorbent, and cannot be used very effectively as flood defences. Nor can they be effectively deployed to scrub carbon from the atmosphere, and as a profession have a general tendency to produce hotter rather…
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Looking at 2016…
So as we pick at the remnants of Christmas and the year, what of 2016, now slouching into view. What, economically, will be the issues? Politically the key thing for Enda is that he and Michael D be taking the bows for 2016. That will allow them to remind everyone that the parties they represent…
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Do we need more financial literacy?
A number of years ago I found myself, in collaboration with Constantin Gurdgiev, in the back of a taxi, in Dublin, with a US journalist. We were spending the afternoon taking taxis at random, with the journalist asking the taxi his or her views and knowledge on various financial and economic concepts. A piece subsequently…
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If Ireland was Greece…in tax terms anyhow
Ireland has a tax problem.. If we were to collect tax at Greek levels, we would take in €8b extra. Greece,…Think about that for a little while and wonder how we could spend that on investment, debt paydown, and increased social services. The chart shows how much more we could raise in taxation if we…