Over at Cedar Lounge Revolution, WBS is doing a good job tracking the ongoing campaign against Ireland’s borrowing capacity and, in particular, the performance of the National Treasury Management Agency. On a recent post, I…
Monthly Archives For May 2009
The Renewal of Democracy: An Interview with Paul Ginsborg
Paul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Florence and a frequent public commentator on politics and life in Italy. His books include A History of Contemporary Italy, Society and Politics 1943 –…
May 25th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Boy, was Senator Fergal Quinn taken in. Or was he? In his recent column, ‘Getting people work a priority’ he attempts to make two real-life comparisons – one based on a letter he received and…
Ask a Man Who Knows!!
You Can Trust Me, Sir. I’m a Priest. One of the upsides to all this kerfuffle about sexual abuse and the clergy is that it will lay to rest forever the argument that priests are…
May 22nd Morning: The Recession Diaries
Jim Stewart has come up with a provocative idea to stimulate one small part of the economy: ‘Some possible measures to stimulate spending could be vouchers which must be spent within a limited time period,…
What Price Education?
“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care…
Pay Attention Juan Carlos!!
And This Does Not Include My Duke of Edinburgh Award!! Si, is the Prince Phillips of England, spouse of the Queen but not a king himself, just a sort of male First Lady, but with…
Crossroads in Prison Building Presents Opportunities to Rethink Direction
In a press release today, IPRT welcomed the Government announcement that it is to reconsider the proposed building of what would have been the largest prison in the State, and one of the largest prisons…
May 19th Lunchtime: The Recession Diaries
Be under no illusion – the economic debate is now morphing from an obsession with debts and deficits into a full-blown assault on the public realm that has more in common with Thatcherism than it…
May 18th Morning: The Recession Diaries
The ESRI’s recent ‘Recovery Scenarios for Ireland’ offers us a glimpse of the ‘nirvana of the return to normal’ – a set of projections that could see the economy, if not flying high, then at…
May 14th Morning: The Recession Diaries
Here is my challenge to the real devaluationists. Will any of them take it up? Real devaluationists claim that, since we can’t devalue our currency, we must devalue other inputs into the economy. Wages feature…
False Pope Visits Israel, Condemns Jews, Muslims, to Hell
Is the Usurper Pope in a Usurper State! All the papers this week are being raging about the news of the False Pope, Benedinct, and his visits to the bit of Palestine called Israel and…
To be or to have… Labour and coalition
I’ve read a couple of different pieces about the prospects for government amongst various potential parties and combined they allow for some useful insights into how the Irish political landscape may be developing. Yesterday Fintan…
Scratch an Anarchist and a Fascist Bleed!!
No, Silly, is not Cirque du Soleil. Is Mussolini being hanged by the Garibaldis! Whenever peoples are asking me to esplain to them the intricicasies of the Spanish Civil War for Golf, I always tell…
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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