Peter Sutherland on the Fiscal Crisis

His op-ed in today’s Irish Times is available here.

A European Stability Fund?

Simon Johnson has written an interesting new piece on the virtues of a European stability fund: see here.

Irish Blog Awards – Winner of Best Specialist Blog

The Irish Economy blog won the Best Specialist blog category (sponsored by iQcontent) at the Irish Blog Awards last night. I thank all the contributors and commentators for the success of this blog.  Special thanks to Agustin Benetrix for his technical contributions to setting up the site.

The full list of blog award winners can be found here.

The Irish Times Selects Us Among The Top 20 Blogs

Today’s Irish Times lists twenty ‘essential’ blogs: you can read the article here.

Below is its view of this blog:

THE IRISH ECONOMY


irisheconomy.ie

Insightful commentary on the Irish economy, from a range of experts.

Taster: “The downside of all of this is that whatever intellectual debt the ICTU document owes to [Swedish economist Jens Henrikkson] is not obvious from the document itself.

“But maybe what [David] Begg is saying is: if you want to know where we really stand, as distinct from the public posture we have to take, you’ve got to read this other stuff too.”

Anglo-Irish Bank Annual Report

The annual report of Anglo Irish Bank has just been published and you can download it here.