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 Economy, Ireland on Dec 26th, 2011 1 Comment »
From Jane’s Defence Weekly, 29 September 2010 (sub required):
New Eurocopter company to support business in tough locations
Eurocopter is planning to set up a new company to look after the company’s products and staff in challenging, less secure areas of the world by the end of the year.
Senior vice-president of human relations, Michel Sesques told Jane’s […]
Posted in EU, Economy, Bastards, Banks on Nov 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
I’m pretty sick of the regular news cycle talking about the Eurozone crisis, and the various bits of leaked info from the upcoming budget. Is it necessary to talk about the public sector cuts, cuts in the Welfare budget or VAT increases as if somehow there is an argument that this is being done to […]
Posted in Economy, Ireland on Sep 25th, 2011 No Comments »
[From the Repudiate the Debt Campaign]
Congratulations to the twenty-seven members of both houses of the Oireachtas for their letter (Irish Times, 23 September) calling for a referendum on the European Stability Mechanism, which, if enacted, would create a permanent euro-zone fund and plunge this state deeper into debt.
Under […]
Posted in Economy, Irish Society, Irish Working Class, Ireland on Sep 12th, 2011 No Comments »
[Text of Peter Bunting’s talk which was given on Sunday, 11 September 2011, at the 23rd Annual Desmond Greaves Summer School.
Peter Bunting is Assistant General Secretary of the ICTU with responsibility for Northern Ireland.]
Comrades,
Discussing an all-Ireland economy is a bit like discussing a European-wide currency. On the surface, we can talk the economist talk […]
Posted in EU, Economy on Sep 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in events, United States, Economy, Ireland on Sep 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Audio recording of Professor Fred Magdoff’s presentation at the Greaves School on Friday (9 September).
The title of the talk is: The international economic crisis – making the periphery pay.
The session was chaired by councillor Catherine Connolly, Galway City Council and barrister.
Fred Magdoff is a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and […]
Posted in EU, Economy, Ireland on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
[From Communist Party of Ireland]
The much heralded recovery from the 2007/8 economic crisis has proven short lived and the policies pursued by the the Obama administration of “quantitative easing”, the European Union’s ongoing attempts to prop up a collapsing financial system have shown not to provide any long term solutions. The Irish […]
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 Economy, Irish Marxism, Irish Society, Irish Economy, books, Irish History, Ireland on Jun 10th, 2011 11 Comments »
As readers may no doubt already be aware Conor’s book Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy is available from the publisher The History Press, Ireland and various online book retail outfits. It’s due in bookshops tomorrow.
This is a significant event, certainly within the history of this blog, and […]
