Prime Time last night showed a few clips of me commenting on the establishment of Irish Water. As is usual (given the time constraints) a lot of my interview was not included. There are a few points worth making:
IBEC’s ideas are laid out here.
Information here.
This is my first post on Irisheconomy.ie, having served my time as apprentice in the Keyboard Warrior army with my own blog, so hopefully it’s useful to set out how I envisage using this site. My research interests are urban economics (including property markets) and economic history. When it comes to the Irish economy, my interests are probably best categorised as follows (in no particular order):
I had thought that maybe my best option to open my account on this site would be to do a post on each and start a conversation. Fortunately, the Irish policy debate is far too exciting and so this morning we have a story (see for example Charlie Weston’s article in the Independent) that covers all three areas: the property tax.
The complete IMF World Economic Outlook April 2012 is now available (overview here). See, in particular, the Foreward by Olivier Blanchard for a very useful stock taking.
Update: The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor was also released today (see here). It has lots of useful comparative data and analysis. Box 5 (page 27) has a useful overview of the Fiscal Compact.