Shaun Richards: Ireland creates quite a problem for attempts to measure an economy via GDP

Signs and wonders are happening! The German Handelsblatt has recognised that foreign trade surpluses are not necessarily a good thing. Although they have long been regarded in this country as hard proof of German competitiveness, the […]

In EU, richest drivers will receive eight times more public money than poorest. Read Here Photo: Pp391 licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Research finds that if the technocrats start forcing Italy into austerity measures via a return to the Excessive Deficit Mechanism (and enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact fiscal rules) then the majority of Italians […]