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Government could cushion impact of inflation if public sector pay deal agreed - IFAC

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warns government faces a difficult balancing act between impact on businesses and households of soaring prices while not exacerbating inflation and driving prices higher

Ireland’s economy exposed as global outlook tightens – Central Bank

CBI warns high levels of inflation eroding consumer spending power and business profit margins

Tax increases or spending cuts could be ahead, budgetary watchdog warns

Policymakers face ‘delicate balance’ of managing inflation, protecting poorer households and delivering on longer-term policies

Ian Guider: Why we need to start talking about the impact interest rate hikes will have on squeezed households

Money markets are pricing in three 0.25 per cent moves this year, and probably the same or more in 2023

Lucinda Creighton: Europe’s bankers and political leaders must act on inflation – and fast

European monetary policy should remain ‘flexible’, says Christine Lagarde of the ECB, but what’s really needed is an interest rate rise across the eurozone

Expert warns central banks not raising interest rates quickly enough to stem inflation crisis

Global assets manager for €133 billion portfolio says a reversal is urgently needed for the world economy’s ‘extreme imbalance of capital and liquidity relative to investment demand’

Dan O’Brien’s quarterly economic outlook: Some cause for optimism even as war adds to inflation shock

High inflation, consumer fears, demands for public service pay increases and concerns over energy shortages next winter all make for an uncomfortable outlook

IMF warns government that cost of living supports should not be given to whole population

Visiting officials say moves must be ‘targeted’ at vulnerable to prevent inflation rate going beyond 6% this year

Ibec revises forecast in face of Ukraine crisis

Economy expected to grow by 4.1 per cent, down from a previous forecast of 6.1 per cent

State records €3.5bn budget surplus in final quarter of 2021

Deficit of €8.1 billion was recorded for full year

Donohoe warns no more can be done to offset inflation impact

Publishing the government’s stability programme update last week, the finance minister said that its €1 billion package was as far as the state could go to buffer the effects of rising prices

John Walsh: We cannot ignore the laws of economic gravity

If a government wants to spend big, it needs an appropriate tax base. Disregarding this fact in the past was Fianna Fáil’s fatal flaw, but leading the conversation on it now might just earn the party a future

US economist warns Fed must ‘act tough’ to counter runaway inflation

International finance professor Sergio Rebelo says the lift in interest rates needs to accelerate to avoid repeat of 1970s crisis

Growth forecast cut by 2% in face of ‘higher-for-longer’ inflation

Officials warn of negative effect of rising energy and commodity prices on country’s economic prospects

Central bank warns state not to stoke inflation

Financial regulator said further measures to ease pressure of soaring prices must be targeted only at most vulnerable

Dan O’Brien: Suddenly, we are living in a world where risk is everywhere

International conflicts earlier this century hardly registered at all with the Irish economy. But with energy prices driving inflation and food prices rising even before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, it’s different this time

Cost of living crisis to deepen in coming months, Central Bank warns

More price hikes on the way due to ‘chain of events’ set off by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Taxpayers face €13bn black hole by 2030, officials warn

Health and pension costs created by an increasingly ageing population would add an additional €7 billion to the country’s spending bill each year by 2030

Inflation forecast to hit 8.5% by summer

The ESRI today warned that government may have to announce additional measures to insulate households from rising costs

John Walsh: We can hope for the best but should plan for the worst in the fallout from war

The government is right to hold back on additional counter-inflationary moves until it becomes clear what challenges lie ahead