By Barry O'Gorman on November 7, 2009
Banker acknowledges contribution to Ireland’s difficulties
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By Barry O'Gorman on November 2, 2009
There are challenges in deployment of the semantic web – including provision of data marked up using RDF.
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By Barry O'Gorman on September 2, 2009
It’s at times like this one is glad to see the Courts in action. At least we have some effort to argue both sides of the coin. A good example from the Liam Carroll case is reported in today’s Irish Times: ‘Property market may take decae to recover, court told‘. The propaganda machine is in [...]
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By Barry O'Gorman on April 18, 2009
Strong list of economists arguing in Friday’s Irish Times for nationalising the Irish banks. I’ve argued this postion previously in this blog. Recent developments would not change my opinion. Seems to me that the NAMA process is simply going to drag out the inevitable. If the assets are written down properyly in the banks before [...]
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By Barry O'Gorman on March 28, 2009
Technorati Tags: MIT The Quiet Coup – by MIT’s Professor Simon Johnson (Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund during 2007 and 2008) – does not make for comfortable reading. Johnson looks back to the last 18 months and questions the motivation for [...]
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By Barry O'Gorman on March 21, 2009
Dan O’Brien (senior Editor & Economist, the Economist Intelligence unit) did not hold back in his call to action in his article in the Irish Times yesterday. O’Brien is a well known face to the Irish public – through his regular appearances on Prime Time. Clearly he is very fearful for the outlook for the [...]
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By Barry O'Gorman on March 14, 2009
Perhaps INBS has not experienced the same issues with its customers being experienced by other banks. Today’s Irish Times reports salary increase and significant bonus(re 2008) for INBS CEO. Presumably, in the context of what is going on elsewhere, Mr Fingleton would not be taking this salary increase and bonus unless he had a ‘stellar’ [...]
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By Barry O'Gorman on March 10, 2009
entity to hold the ‘toxic assets’ of the banks
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Damning assessment of Irish Economy
By Barry O'Gorman on March 21, 2009
Dan O’Brien (senior Editor & Economist, the Economist Intelligence unit) did not hold back in his call to action in his article in the Irish Times yesterday. O’Brien is a well known face to the Irish public – through his regular appearances on Prime Time. Clearly he is very fearful for the outlook for the [...]
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