From Strong Language » political:
Western society has hang-ups about ageing, and older people are often invisible or ignored.
Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke, one of the more senior members in the Dáil, was being asked for her advice to older people running for politics last Monday.
Thankfully, O’Rourke did not have a “senior moment”, the American expression [...]
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From WSJ:
“[US] banks have generally been keeping a lid on commercial real-estate losses by extending these mortgages upon maturity. However, that practice, billed by many industry observers as “extending and pretending,” has come under criticism by some analysts and investors as it promises to put off the pains into the future…
Critics [...]
From Strong Language » politics:
Nama is a bad idea said Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, on Wednesday night while addressing Trinity College’s historical society. Nama is likely to “burden this generation for 25 to 50 years or more. I am very uncomfortable with a government with such a minority support making such a decision.”
The view that there is no [...]
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Last night’s Leviathan debate was an interesting one – despite the egg-throwing – and it showed even more clearly that Nama is not fit for its purpose and that the politicans have no idea what they are doing. They are truly making it up as they go along.
Nama, according to its website, is [...]
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First published in Sunday Business Post, Ireland
Oct 6, 2001
By Margaret E Ward
Sculptor Michael Richards spent his last evening on top of the world. After watching Monday night football in his studio on the 92nd floor of One World Trade Center with fellow artist Jeff Konigsberg, he knuckled down to the work [...]
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Remember the computer simulation game SimCity in the early 1990s? The objective of SimCity was to build and design a city either without specific goals or towards certain scenarios. The game allowed you to see what would happen in the future based on your specific choices and performance when playing. You also controlled the speed at which time passed.
For [...]
From Strong Language » politics:
Western society has hang-ups about ageing, and older people are often invisible or ignored.
Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke, one of the more senior members in the Dáil, was being asked for her advice to older people running for politics last Monday.
Thankfully, O’Rourke did not have a “senior moment”, the American expression [...]
From Strong Language » politics:
By this stage, most of us are sick of the government’s lack of leadership, the inequities in our health and educational systems, our two-tiered system of justice for rich and poor, the blind eye turned to unethical behaviour and indeed criminal acts in the business and professional communities and the Republic’s overall [...]
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Ireland needs a drastic shift in cultural attitudes – away from entitlement and towards personal responsibility. The arrogant aristocracy has made taxpayers as cheap as chips.
This article was originally published in The Irish Times, Business this week, Platform column on:
March 6, 2009
The cost of “keeping up with the Fitzpatricks”
Two years ago, [...]
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Martin Mansergh, junior minister for Finance, and I had a very lively discussion on the telly last night. We were, of course, talking about the economy. He was a nice man but he was completely unprepared.
Our lovely interviewer Noel said we’d just have a nice discussion but
it quickly turned into a [...]
