Posted in capitalism, Economy, Bastards, Banks on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Some thoughts on this Irish Times article about Merkozy’s designs on our precious corporation tax rate. Admittedly, it raises only superficial points, but still…
The Government is facing a new threat to its corporate tax regime as Germany and France push for the acceleration of moves to create a pan-European business tax system.
It’s not new. It’s […]
Posted in EU, capitalism, Ireland on Sep 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
Posted in capitalism on Jul 15th, 2011 No Comments »
I came across the image above on the guardian website, (original story here), and was struck by how familiar it looked - and I don’t mean in terms of the imagery of drought and famine.
I mean, take a look at this - it’s not a real campaign by the way:
The aesthetics of drought and famine […]
Posted in EU, capitalism, Ireland on Jul 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in EU, capitalism, Economy on Jun 10th, 2011 3 Comments »
The continuing strife around the Eurozone, and the next stage austerity being imposed on Greece and the heroic resistance to it on the streets of Athens and elsewhere, as well as all the rest of the so called chaos and ‘crisis’ going on, one would think that all of it has come out of a […]
Posted in capitalism, Banks on May 31st, 2011 No Comments »
Clip from Yes Minister where a banker discusses the new ‘fad’ of monetarism.
Posted in capitalism on May 25th, 2011 1 Comment »
Michael Burke has a great post on employment and unemployment trends in the UK Economy over on Socialist Economic Bulletin, but first to the fun bit. The documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis has a new series out on BBC 2 called All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
I only caught the last 10 minutes […]
Posted in capitalism, Ireland on Apr 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Marxism, capitalism, Economy on Jan 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Excellent interview with David Harvey, via Wisconsin Public Radio.
It deals with the dynamics of finance capital since the 1970s.
Have a listen and keep in mind Ireland’s pit-stop in the international financial capital route - i.e. the IFSC.
The skim off the top which Irish financial service providers got for washing this money - therein lies one […]
Posted in capitalism on Dec 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
In the run-up to Christmas my daughter has started to feed us with ideas for Christmas presents that perhaps Santa or we her parents could provide. The main ones have been decided upon, and she is all set to write her letter to Santa. However, the other day the missus, who you shall know as […]
