Written by Foras Teamhrach
“The front page of The Irish Times runs with the Taoiseach claiming that if the Budget is not passed, the country will run out of money. That is technically untrue.” To Read the Rest of this Article Follow the Link: http://www.progressive-economy.ie/2010/11/ireland-will-not-run-out-of-money-if.html
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
“The Finance Minister’s statement that, if the government’s Budget is not passed the country will run out of money, has been examined in an earlier post, and found to be politically untrue. It is also untrue from a simple matter of accounting.” To Read the Rest of this Article: http://www.progressive-economy.ie/2010/11/running-out-of-logic.html
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
From: Guido Fawkes blog: http://order-order.com/2010/10/15/anglo-irish-bondholders-should-take-the-lossesis-the-ecb-forcing-ireland-to-protect-german-investments/ The Finance Minster stated in the Dail on the 18th May last is that Anglo-Irish Bank does not know who their senior bondholders are, in other words they do not know who loaned Anglo-Irish money. The reader may judge if this is a credible position: “Detailed information on bondholders of [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
In 2008, during the Irish Law Society’s annual conference in Budapest, former Minister for Justice (now Finance), Brian Lenihan stated that the government’s view was that Ireland’s future would be best served by a reformed Europe in which Ireland was a fully committed member. He spoke of the treaty in “quasi-religious terms”: the plebiscite on [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
From the Irish Independent in January 2009: A return to domestic rates for the first time in 30 years was raised by the man heading up the Government’s cost-cutting taskforce. Householders could end up paying thousands of euro a year for the privilege of living in their own homes, if the Government moves forward with [...]
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