The latest column in the VoxEU series on the economics of World War I is by Steve Broadberry, and is available here.
Yesterday’s Sunday Business Post led with a story that the European Commission has started some “information gathering exercises” into tax arrangements put in place with MNCs in the 1980s and early 1990s. The only company named in the piece is Pepsi.
There is a notable link between Pepsi and Apple. John Sculley was vice-president of Pepsi from 1970 to 1977 and president from 1977 to 1983. He was CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993. Last week he was in Dublin and gave an interview to RTE’s Science and Technology Correspondent, Will Goodbody. The interview is available on this page and the relevant segment begins at around 08:45. The short transcript and the rest of the post are below the fold.
Patrick Honohan’s speech to MABS event is here.
Jean Claude Trichet’s 19th November 2010 letter to “Tánaiste” Brian Lenihan is here. Brian Lenihan’s reply. It should be remembered that Gavin Sheridan has been to the fore in the efforts to get the Trichet letter published.
UPDATE: ECB page on this is here with lots of related information and material.
Otmar Issing and Ludger Schuknecht explain in this WSJ oped that “Berlin’s pro-growth efforts in the early 2000s saved money rather than require extra spending” – here.