Do you remember why the Government introduced the emergency April budget? Rising unemployment? Collapse in economic growth? Mass depression over the weather? Let’s refresh our memories: ‘Without this supplementary Budget the general government deficit would…
Monthly Archives For April 2009
Do Not Panic: Kill All Mexicans!!
Is no wonder the swine flu is spreading. His mask have holes in!!! Hola everybody. I espect you have both been reading about the appalling pandemonic which is taking place in Mexico where they have…
April 27th Morning: The Recession Diaries
Ronan Lyon has written an instructive post on the ‘Thorny Issue of Teachers’ Pay’. So useful, in fact, that it was highlighted on Irish.economy.ie and in the Sunday Business Post. And boy has it stirred…
Wallets Full of Blood: Zombie Banker Blues
Following February’s Wallets Full of Blood: Houses on the Moon, there is now another installment in the tale of zombies stalking the dead Republic. WALLETS FULL OF BLOOD: ZOMBIE BANKER BLUES WALLETS FULL OF BLOOD:…
You Cannot Teach Eggs Benedict to Suck Your Grandma!!
“Lighten up, baby. Don’t be such a fascist!” “Huh! You’re a lily-livered weak-kneed liberal and I want my real pope back.” Things have come to a pretty pass when the former leader of an industrialized…
Read Yourself Fitter
Our favourite magazine here at Khmer Mansions is Seventeen, every issue of which is passed around the office and down the ranks so each staff member can individually savour its consistently fun, informative, and sticky…
April 16th Evening: The Recession Diaries
In time, the acronym NAMA may enter into everyday language, much like Catch-22. But we don’t know,yet, with what inflection it will be used. It could end up something like this: ‘Go NAMA off, you…
Fame Is My Cruel Mistress and I Love Her
I am never being so popular before! Is like being John F. Kennedy. I only hope it doesn’t go to my head like it did to his!! I am all in a kerfuffle this week…
Building a Platform for Change: An Interview with Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson is an independent policy analyst based in Belfast. He is co-leader of the Northern Ireland devolution monitoring team-part of a UK-wide project co-ordinated by the Constitution Unit in London-which provided the Northern Ireland…
April 14th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
That wild and whacky outrider of neo-liberalism, Constantin Gurdgiev, has taken a scalpel to the Government’s budget numbers and I find myself . . . agreeing with him. No surprise there. People from wildly varying…
Do Not Panic: Kill All Orang-utans!!
Is for stuffing the bird of paradise, but you could be next! As a devout and pious Christian, I am never cease to be amaze by the wonders of Our Lord’s Creation and what he…
Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker A lengthy and thorough profile of Iran and its leader. Excellent stuff. Ahmadinejad is a Twelver Shiite and a fervent Mahdist, which means…
Deflation’s End
This article was originally written for Indymedia I don’t intend to list the outrages that Fianna Fail has perpetrated in yesterday’s budget. We all have scars to show each other. And let’s leave the bank…
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
Book Review: Tariq Ali: The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power A country in crisis Everything seems to be “on the brink” or “standing at the crossroads” in world politics these days….
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- Notes for a Book on Money and the Irish State - The Marshall Aid Program April 2, 2016Ireland’s Economy: Radio Eireann talks on Ireland’s part in the Marshall Plan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1949 [official/government publication] NLI: OPIE X 26.A Forward by the Taoiseach Mr. John A. Costello S.C., T.D. (pp.1-2) Since its inception European Economic Co-operation has done much towards restoring European economic solvency and has challenged the forces which have been […]Conor McCabe
- The Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? August 29, 2015I start teaching a level one (introduction level) module in UCD Monday Week on the Financial Crisis. As always, I’ll post what I can here to share it with activists and progressives. This is a short audio I’m putting up for the students to give them a sense of where the module is coming from. […]Conor McCabe
- Money in 35,000 Words or Less August 22, 2015I’ve been asked to write a short book on money. The manuscript is due in the end of April 2016. As with most things I do with political economy and education I’ll be posting stuff here as I go along. I just find it an interesting way of working through ideas, concepts and analysis. Anyway, […]Conor McCabe
- THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER January 30, 2015I’ll be writing more about this at the weekend but I think this is a good standalone clip from evidence to the banking inquiry given by Prof. Ed Kane on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015. He was asked by Deputy Pearse Doherty to elaborate on the statement below which was made in a paper that […]Conor McCabe