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Stephen Kinsella on Economics

By Stephen Kinsella 1 week ago

There have never been more workers, and they have never paid more in tax than today. Household disposable incomes are higher now than they were during the boom, and there are proportionately fewer children as a percentage of the population to look after. Why, then, is there a child poverty problem in this country?

Stephen Kinsella on Economics

By Stephen Kinsella 2 weeks ago

Ideas matter. Memory matters. Without memory, the quality of our thinking deteriorates. We need to remember why the centre matters, how it has lifted living standards across every continent. Paschal Donohoe gave a speech last week arguing for a re-defined centre: socially engaged and based on action

Stephen Kinsella on the housing market

By Stephen Kinsella 3 weeks ago

The system we have set up is driving the negative outcomes we are seeing, where The Economist calculates house prices are 25 per cent overvalued, 10,000 people are homeless, and we can expect another boom/bust cycle in property to come

Stephen Kinsella on Economics

By Stephen Kinsella 1 month ago

Turkey’s economy got out of control because politicians, desperate to hold onto power, used the levers of power to purchase an electoral victory, and the economy overheated from an excess of credit. We know exactly what that feels like.

Kinsella on broadband

By Stephen Kinsella 1 month ago

The state will end up carrying the can to roll out broadband to the furthest parts of the country. We must remember what the new public management scholars taught us to forget. The state is the only one who can do it, so the state should be the only one to do it

Stephen Kinsella on Banking culture

By Stephen Kinsella 1 month ago

No doubt there are more scandals to come, largely consequence-free for the individuals found culpable. Banks, put simply, are crisis-generating institutions. No bank has been scandal-free. Trackers? They knew what they were doing. They did it anyway.

What does a trade war mean for Ireland?

By Stephen Kinsella 2 months ago

US president Donald Trump has a new campaign slogan, ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept’, as well as new tariffs on imports from China, and possibly the EU. With the highest debt per capita in the EU, the new US policy could pose a big risk to our economy

The economy isn’t overheating right now. But we do need to put additional resources into capital spending and construction

By Stephen Kinsella 3 months ago

Stephen Kinsella argues that Ireland can take a boom in construction to avoid a bust everywhere else

Victims of a growing economic divide

By Stephen Kinsella 3 months ago

The landslide vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment was delivered by a mobilised youth. But this very generation, authors of such radical social change, are the victims of a growing economic divide between young and old

Ireland and the new world order

By Stephen Kinsella 4 months ago

Ireland is a winner when it comes to globalisation. But things are changing. The lesson of history is that ideas matter; that institutions matter. We are not spending nearly enough time discussing either

Stephen Kinsella: The squeezed middle are not as squeezed as we might think

By Stephen Kinsella 5 months ago

But they do need the cash to save to alleviate the service bottlenecks they face now. What needs to change is the infrastructural provisions around health, education and housing

Stephen Kinsella on Economics

By Stephen Kinsella 5 months ago

Why can’t we have an entrepreneurial state for domestic Irish companies? We’re not a poor country any more. We can do a lot of the innovating ourselves, as the four smart chaps in Intercom show us is possible.

Stephen Kinsella on economics

By Stephen Kinsella 6 months ago

The travails of Facebook and Trump have highlighted the fact that Ireland needs a new industrial model

Stephen Kinsella on Trade Wars

By Stephen Kinsella 6 months ago

Tariffs are idiotic. Almost everyone loses. Trump’s dismal economics will hurt everyone but US steel manufacturers and himself, and see friends of the US coming cap in hand to Washington for exemptions

Stephen Kinsella: Ireland’s rental timebomb

By Stephen Kinsella 7 months ago

Caps on rent are not working, home loans are being offloaded to vulture funds, and the government’s slow response to structural changes in Irish society will be interpreted as doing nothing

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