Tag: recovery
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The fiscal compact: maybe inevitable, hardly sensible
This is an extended version of a column published in the Irish Examiner, Saturday 4 Feb 2012. http://www.examiner.ie/business/business-features/with-our-fiscal-policies-is-the-compact-right-for-ireland-182591.html The fiscal compact that we have now seen agreed to, the Not Quite an EU treaty as it has been termed, is a curates egg. At one level, like mom, apple pie, puppies and sunshine, its hard…
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Where is the housing market going in 2012?
This is an extended version of a column published in the Irish Examiner on 7 January 2012. http://www.examiner.ie/business/uncertainty-over-end-of-fall-in-house-prices-179355.html In the last week a number of publications have emerged which indicate that far from the house price crash reaching the bottom it appears, at least if you believe Daft.ie, to be accelerating. Daft.ie suggest that the…