Colm McCarthy: Ireland Has Lost Capacity to Borrow

Colm McCarthy has yet another important article in the Sunday Independent: see here.   I would be somewhat more positive about what was achieved this week with the stress tests (and associated recaptialisations), and also the strengthened commitment from the ECB to continue to act as lender of last resort.   But Colm is right that the […]

Colm McCarthy: Terms of the bailout deal are not unfair — they are impractical

I’ll take my turn linking to Colm McCarthy’s agenda-setting column in the Sunday Independent (available here).     While I don’t find much to disagree with in Colm’s piece, I worry that some readers might come away with the sense that default provides a relatively painless solution to our problems, which I don’t at all think […]

Colm McCarthy in today’s Sindo

Colm has an article in today’s Sunday Independent which is well worth reading.

Colm McCarthy at the TCD-DEW Conference: Irish Economic Policy for the Crisis: What’s Next?

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Pay and Employment Trends in the Public and Private Sectors, by Colm McCarthy

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