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Will Irish Banks need further recapitalisation? If so, who will pay?
This is a version of my column in The Irish Examiner on 6 April 2013 . It was written before the talk at the Cantillon School at which the Central Bank revealed that upwards of 25b of SME loans were now … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, BlackRock, business, capital, economy, imf report, ireland, real-estate
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Entrepreneurship research in ireland
So with all the government fuss about the innovation island and the innovation economy, with all the (lip service?) paid to empowering entrepeneursip and with the push to make Irish universities into powerhouses of entrepreneurial enablement, nobody seems to have … Continue reading
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Tagged business, business schools, economy, Entrepreneurship, politics
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What sectors have contracted most in the crash?
The CSO produced a very good set of tables on value added by sector 2002-9 The data tables contained in this release can be downloaded in excel from this link. Summary : in terms of output the economy was 13% … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation, business, cars, economy, environment, recession, statistics, transportation
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Plan B needed, times three, for the dangers ahead
This is an extended and linked version of an Irish Examiner oped published 24 November 2012 Irish governments over the years , and especially in the last few, have not exactly shown themselves to be shining examples when it comes … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo, black swan, business, competitveness, economy, Europe, IMF, planning, politics, tax
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Do you want the Civil Service to run Universities?
This is an significantly extended version of an OpEd published by myself and Charles Larkin (whose name appears missing) in the Irish Times. The Universities (Amendment) Bill 2012 is a shutting of the stable door after the horse has bolted … Continue reading
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Tagged business, competitveness, economy, education analysts, education pedagogy, universities
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What have the Romans, sorry Researchers, ever done for us?
Another day another paean to applied science… well, a thinly disguised call for more money to go to engineering. Coz, they make stuff y’know, not like basic researchers or heaven help us AHSS (arts, humanities and social sciences) dabblers. After … Continue reading
With greater transparency in prices, where now for house prices ? Have your say!
So now that we have some more transparency in the housing price area, with the publication of the property price database, where do people see the average house price going? Will greater transparency via increased volume result in prices going … Continue reading
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Tagged business, economy, expectations, house price, housing, poll, price database, property prices, real-estate, transparency
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Should we cut longterm unemployment payments?
There is some comment today in the newspapers on an EU commission report which states, inter alia, that welfare rates should be cut in the forthcoming budget. They state in a draft report (which doesn’t seem to be publicly available) … Continue reading
Taxes, Land and Wealth
This is an expanded version of a column published in the Irish Examiner 25 August 2012. One of the defining characteristics of Irish governance is the inability to make decision based on evidence. All to often we substitute evidence-based policy, … Continue reading
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Tagged business, democracy, economy, household charge, ireland, land tax, politics, property, site tax, tax
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Ireland is not in Europe..
This is an expanded and updated version of an opinion piece published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 4 August 2011. National Culture is a funny fuzzy concept. Anyone who has ever dealt across different societies knows that cultures and … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, business, cris, crisis, culture, Distance, ECB, economics, economy, euro, Europe, Hypocrisy, Israel, Mitt Romney, Palestine, Palestinians
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