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View from Dublin

Ireland's deficit remains larger than any other country

End in sight but road is long and the going difficult

My favourite Churchill quotation is the one about the end of the beginning, as distinct from the beginning of the end. It is very clever - and, even more, it fits so many situations.

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Inside View from Dublin

Devaluation's common currency but it's nothing like it used to be

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Devaluation? Don't make me laugh. Let me tell you what a devaluation was.
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The last laugh over crisis is still a long way off yet

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

There are lots of those 'good news, bad news' jokes, but the joke is always the same. The good news turns out not to be so good after all. Sometimes the bad news is better.
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The human toll of a severe recession

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

If there is one thing worse than the severity of the Great Recession we are living through, it is its longevity.
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We'll all be happy when the economy gets fixed

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Sad cases, like me, who go to the regular presentations of statistics from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO), often mingle afterwards, over the government-issue coffee, to ruminate on what we have just heard.
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Olympics could've played with smaller producers

Friday, 27 July 2012

As the countdown to the Olympics begins we're all set to enjoy a few weeks of sporting competition and endeavour.
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One little letter means a lot

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Gimme that old-time religion, the gospellers used to sing, and I want to testify. It occurred to me last week that I had been losing the faith.
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Fresh thinking could create jobs

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Bicycles. That was the solution proposed by the British politician Norman Tebbit to the high unemployment of the 1980s. There was always a job somewhere if you looked hard enough.
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Irish need to stand up and ask euro questions

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Most people have heard of the South Sea Bubble, or even the Dutch Tulip Mania. Not so many will be familiar with the Scottish Darien Scheme.
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Income research just doesn't seem to add up

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Size matters. There is all the political and policy difference in the world if it is 44% or 10% of people with young children who would be better off not working.
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Economy needs boost of devolved tax powers

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Tax does funny things to people. Some go to huge lengths to try to avoid paying it while others will go to huge lengths to try and influence policy on it.
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Let's find answer before question changes again

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

The Irish Question was very difficult. Every time the English found the answer, the Irish changed the question."
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Thorny wage issue must be addressed

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

I used to get regular correspondence - as did many others - from a man who believed we were all missing the point about unemployment: that with technology it meant there was just less demand for labour.
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Finding answers to debt crisis is a taxing matter

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

No, it wasn't Lehman Bros. The foibles of Dick Fuld and his merry band have been cited by the politicians involved as the cause of much of our troubles, from the collapse of Anglo to the bailout itself.
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