Frugal Food Blogs
Cheapeats.ie is now part of my daily browsing routine. The sorry state of affairs is that I don’t even have the budget to fill a frugal storecupboard at the moment but the recipes and price watches they offer are excellent. They have been included amongst a list of the top 100 frugal food blogs. Read [...]
Read moreThoughts of a Public Sector Worker
To begin, I am the pen pusher that has been lambasted for months now in the press and the scapegoat for the state of the economy. My job is not a straightforward role to explain, in a state agency very few people have heard of – I am not a nurse, or fireman or carer [...]
Read moreCheapeats.ie
Frugal shopping and economic eating habits – the topic of many blog posts, cookery books filling out shelves and news articles – a blog on the topic that I’ve come across makes for some good reading and information, if like me you spend components of your evening reading food blogs.
Read moreDavid McWilliams terrible use of Statitistics
The subject of David McWilliams column today is how the GAA transfer index shows a growing trend of immigration from Ireland.
According to the GCTI, emigration is on the increase from all over Ireland and it is recurring in precisely the age group that we need most — our young, fit people. What makes the change [...]
Creating Innovation
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 [...]
Read moreA note on Obama
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 [...]
Does Leo Varadkar believe in ghosts.
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 [...]
Crisis?
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 [...]
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