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It's time to end the Irish addiction to tax reliefs

Sunday November 15 2009

WHEN the tide goes out, you find out who's been swimming naked, the legendary investor Warren Buffet remarked. Right now, much of the Irish financial scene resembles a nudist colony.

How the year of Irish banking crisis unfolded

Thursday September 24 2009

2008

NAMA is a bailout for foreign investors

Friday September 18 2009

ON Wednesday, the Finance Minister declared the end of the property crash.

FG accuses Government of 'economic madness'

Thursday September 17 2009

FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny accused the Government of being "pulled by the nose by the banks" into an economic cul-de-sac with NAMA.

Nama: mother of all bureaucracies is silent on costs

Sunday September 13 2009

Shrouded in secrecy, lacking in any kind of real transparency, with consultants being paid over €2,000 a day, Nama, the state's white hope for salvation, already looks set to become the mother of all state bureaucracies.

McWilliams saw writing on wall

Friday September 04 2009

The Irish Independent should not allow David McWilliams to take sabbaticals.

Power to the people: let's all be allowed vote on NAMA

Monday August 17 2009

ONE of the best books about the Kennedy era in American politics is David Halberstam's 'The Brightest and the Best' which looks at how some of the smartest people in the US managed to push their country into the Vietnam War.

Coastal error . . . NAMA expert 'all at sea' in midlands

Friday August 14 2009

THE economist behind the controversial NAMA project previously carried out a report which raised the issue of coastal erosion in Longford -- despite the fact that it is a landlocked county.

Department of Finance has to stop outsourcing its thinking

Monday August 10 2009

We need to talk about strategy. Now there's a sentence guaranteed to crush the sprit of any senior management team. But business leaders must now recognise that the strategies they have been pursing heretofore are now, in many cases, redundant.

The only way out is with a click of my red heels

Sunday August 09 2009

RECENTLY I've taken to wearing red shiny shoes at home, a la Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, in the forlorn hope that if I click my heels, I may be transported somewhere, anywhere (even Kansas would do at a push) that isn't Ireland Inc.

Liquidation loophole puts Nama in disarray

Sunday August 02 2009

THE future of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) was last night thrown into disarray after it emerged that legislation for the so-called 'bad bank' does not appear to have any provision to deal with developers who go into receivership or liquidation prior to the agency's establishment.