In the wake of Bertie resignation there has been much along the lines that Bertie wasted the Boom a mantra that the opposition have been touting out for years. Now there is indeed some validity to that. For one thing the way we invested in housing and not in innovation was disappointing. One of the […]

From Ireland.com
Obama, an Illinois senator, said all McCain offers “is four more years of the same George W. Bush policies that have gotten us into this pickle.”
He noted McCain’s support for extending Bush’s tax cuts, which Mr Obama said would help the wealthy, and his support for trade agreements that Mr Obama said do not […]

From Fine Gael
February saw the biggest ever monthly increase in the live register in absolute terms, proving that Fianna Fáil has killed the Celtic Tiger. The crucial 5% barrier has been broken with unemployment now running at 5.2%, the highest since August 1999. The spectre of mass unemployment has returned to haunt the country.
The […]

Economics is always a subject that interests me but one I have never studied it. So here is a quick thought on something I know not alot about. Which might annoy John Walters but I never read him and I guess he never reads me. Anyway. Consumer confidence seems to be one of the main […]