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Dark arts of the bankers 26 Aug 2013 | 12:58 pm
For those of you who are partial to a bit of history – and particularly the history of this part of the world in the years before the Plantation – Wolf Hall, the 2009 Booker Prize winner by Hilary Man...
An uncomfortable truth about eurozone growth 19 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
The local lad, more meat on a seagull, walks precariously on the narrow ledge of the enormous bridge. One false move and he is gone. Far below, the green Neretva river moves slowly. The blazing summer...
Curtains for traditional third level? 15 Aug 2013 | 09:56 am
Do you remember opening the envelope with your Leaving Cert results? Can you still feel the anxiety, the hopes, the disappointments and then the calculations, totting up points to see if you made the ...
Sitting on our hands or facing facts 12 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
The other week, when in Henley in England, I spoke to an English couple from Exeter who had recently visited Dublin. They loved the city but said that they didn’t do any shopping because the place was...
Negative equity generation needs hope 8 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
The idea that the economy is a morality play seems to be taking hold in some quarters. This is particularly the case when it comes to this term “strategic defaulter”. The strategic defaulter is someon...
Don’t listen to the troika, just look at the statistics 5 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
As well as setbacks on the field of battle, one of the main reasons behind Sweden’s retreat from being a great military power in the 17th and 18th centuries was because it was the first country to hav...
Property porn doesn’t float 1 Aug 2013 | 11:27 am
The property pornographers have been giddy this week over news that property prices have been rising. Reported sightings of a new breed of foreign property speculator in fancy Dublin restaurants, clin...
Mistaking illness for a cure 29 Jul 2013 | 11:23 am
Have you ever been in a situation where a family member is sick and some savant in the family goes off on a riff about the competence of the doctor rather than the health of the patient? It can be a s...
Time to break convention 25 Jul 2013 | 11:46 am
According to the great American economist, JK Galbraith, “the conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking”. The painful job of thinking is what makes the difference between...
It’s the customers, stupid 22 Jul 2013 | 12:35 pm
Anyone who has been unemployed, or has had a family member on the dole, will know exactly what unemployment does to people: it destroys them emotionally as well as financially. When you experience thi...
