The Business&Finance website carries an interview with Brian Lenihan (conducted yesterday): you can read it here.
Author: Philip Lane
As suggested by one commentator, this article provides an interesting analysis of the relative merits of US versus Europe for academic economists: you can read it here.
Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have an interesting op-ed in today’s FT: you can read it here.
Trevor Butterworth writes on the Forbes.com website about blogging in Ireland and highlights the role of this blog in the domestic political and financial discourse: you can read it here.
Update: this article is also picked up by The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan’s blog at The Atlantic magazine site.
The IMF has raised its growth projections for 2010 and 2011. Although the fastest-growing countries are in the emerging markets group, the upward revisions in the growth forecasts for the euro area, US and UK are also quite substantial (relative to priors): you can get more details here.