The Consequences of Monetary Union (1972)

The financier and businessman Emmett O’Connell, formerly of Aminex and Eglinton Oil and still successfully engaged in the international mining business, has long held the view that abolishing the Irish pound and joining the eurozone was the biggest policy error ever made by the Irish State. The Greek crisis and its drastic implications for the [...]

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Ghosts of debt and jobs will haunt economy
The Irish Times - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1229/1224261354227.html
Morgan Kelly
OPINION : By 2015, Iceland will almost certainly be a lot better off than Ireland because it dealt decisively with its banks.
For grand corruption, though, we will have to look to Nama. By allowing the banks to dictate the terms [...]

⁂ European Central Bank capitulating in face of crisis

Two similar articles from newspapers on the political Right and Left forwarded for your information by Anthony Coughlan:
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Tuesday 24.2.09
ECB faces mutiny from national bank governors as recession deepens
- The European Central Bank is capitulating.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
For months the ECB held sternly to the high ground of orthodoxy as the US, Japanese, British, Canadian, [...]