Economy – Page 2 – Postcards

Pour encourager les autres

July 10, 2015 No Comments

Yanis Varoufakis is pulling no punches in the Guardian today. The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM, or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. The former relies on the fear of expulsion to hold together, while state money involves mechanisms for recycling surpluses between member states […]

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Big Business Economy Human Rights Regulation

Worker Exploitation and Abuse is widespread

June 5, 2015June 5, 2015 No Comments

Fascinating read in The Atlantic. Patagonia as a company has tried hard to remove exploitation from it’s supplier chain, but in 2011 they decided to investigate deeper, beyond the usual first-tier direct suppliers, into their second level, and they found abuses of labour laws and unethical practices in their sub-suppliers that they are now aiming to […]

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Economy Politics Regulation Society

What’s a house for?

March 2, 2015 No Comments

There needs to be a public debate about how the crisis should be resolved. It requires a clear decision about what role we want to give housing in the Irish economy. Should policy allow an unregulated private property market where housing is primarily a private commodity and an investment for speculation and accumulation of private […]

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Economy Europe

Krugman: “The dynamic is different this time”

February 9, 2015 No Comments

Paul Krugman could be on to something when he points out that small country politicians can have an incentive to go along with what the Davos Set (think troika) want, as once you are seen as a good member of the club, there’s no end of interesting jobs in the EU, IMF, etc that you […]

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Economy Government

Tax Tweaks

December 1, 2014December 1, 2014 No Comments

In an effort to avoid another outburst á la Irish Water, the Government has been heeding calls to review how the local property tax is calculated. Currently, it is based on the market value of the house as of 2012, and this level is frozen until 2016. The problem is that property prices in Dublin […]

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Economy Government

Property Tax + Vacant Land Levy = Crap version of a Site Value Tax

November 29, 2014 No Comments

In an attempt to encourage (I presume) the use of otherwise valuable and well-located land, the Government is proposing a new bill to create a ‘vacant land levy’. However, Local authorities, OPW and semi-states will be exempt, and these are the very people with quite a large amount of unused land in prime locations. Local […]

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Bits & Bobs Economy Oddities Technology

Reverse Showrooming

October 30, 2014 No Comments

Laura Slattery in the IT reports two interesting nuggets from the latest Google Consumer Barometer: When it comes to buying home appliances, the Irish are also notably fonder of a practice known as “reverse showrooming”, where they research a purchase online before heading into a physical shop to have it rung up a till the […]

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Murf

Pour encourager les autres

Worker Exploitation and Abuse is widespread

What’s a house for?

Krugman: “The dynamic is different this time”

Tax Tweaks

Property Tax + Vacant Land Levy = Crap version of a Site Value Tax

Reverse Showrooming

Category: Economy

Pour encourager les autres

Worker Exploitation and Abuse is widespread

What’s a house for?

Krugman: “The dynamic is different this time”

Tax Tweaks

Property Tax + Vacant Land Levy = Crap version of a Site Value Tax

Reverse Showrooming