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Tough budgets essential here for 'extended' period

Friday November 20 2009

The global economic recovery is "too timid" in the mostly rich countries of the OECD and unemployment in the euro area may not peak until 2011, the latest economic outlook from the Paris-based think-tank says.

UK jobless 'could hit 9.5% by 2011'

Thursday November 19 2009

The UK's jobless rate could soar to 9.5% in two years' time, even after the economy begins to recover, a leading economic body has warned.

US economy 'set to outpace Europe'

Thursday November 19 2009

The world's rich and developed economies will grow faster next year, but recovery will remain modest, a Paris-based watchdog said

Lenihan signals Budget plan to hit the lower paid

Wednesday November 18 2009

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan last night gave his strongest hint yet that he plans to bring lower-paid workers into the tax net.

All capitalists stick together

Tuesday November 17 2009

Thomas Byrne TD says that NAMA has the support of the IMF, the OECD, the ECB and the European Commission.

Protest and protect: public sector unions seem to be much more concerned with their own pay and conditions than the plight of those who depend on them for care

Unions must put country before their own interests

Monday November 16 2009

Harold Wilson, never a great phrase-maker, was rightly derided when, after having devalued sterling, he told the British working man that "The pound in your pocket is still the same".

Leadership in short supply as economy brought to the brink

Monday November 16 2009

The summer before last, I enrolled in a business course with 15 other people. All of us worked in well-known companies across the country and were, so we thought, on the brink of a brilliant career in a booming Ireland.

MANIFESTO FOR PROGRESS HOW: WE CAN GET OUT OF THE MORASS

Sunday November 15 2009

  • Cut public sector pay by 5-7 per cent

Disability allowance claims soar

Sunday November 15 2009

The number of people who are claiming disability allowance has almost doubled in the last decade.

My mother had the eccentric habit of darning grey socks with purple wool, causing childhood trauma to at least one of her children

Saturday November 14 2009

So now they tell us that living standards in Ireland are likely to remain "permanently lower" -- or so the boffins at the OECD say, anyway.

Mathews wrong about NAMA

Saturday November 14 2009

Peter Mathews makes numerous assertions regarding NAMA that simply don't stand up to scrutiny (Letters, November 12).