Paul Sweeney
@sweeneyman
Author books on Irish economy inclu “The Celtic Tiger”; board member of TASC the Irish progressive think tank; Former Chief Economist, Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Awarded honorary D Econ Sc. by UCD for “contribution to Irish economic model.”
#IrishTimes full page taken from FT. I posted on this Israeli exodus a few days ago. Why should I pay for IT plagiarism? To support good journalism…but this?
Trump is effective in destroying the planet. He brought us the Heatwave!
Martin Wolf of FT reviews Gab Zucman’s book on the necessity of taxing billionaires
Solar electricity generation has overtaken wind and nuclear and it will keep going. Some good news!
A United Ireland will cost a great deal- best support the Shared Ireland initiative until NI gets its administration and economy together!
Amazon Big Tech screws its customers and we have no consumer protection!
Big food surpluses of wine beverages food preps & animal products in EU. Need olive oil tea & coffee!?
SF leader Mary Lou McDonneld “called on the government to meet the protesters and to act on their demands” ! Wow! Why vote if governments have to cave into any protesters demands? As a former trade Unionist we protested to get heard but did not try to undermine the economy & to get some gain.
More and more wars -not good at all! ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_N...
Partners in aUK law firm get up to £4m a year. No wonder the law is beyond most people’s reach. Many partners earn big money. No figures for Ireland.
Israel to switch production from a car factory to missiles for an Israeli defence (sic!) company, Rafael.
The Broliarchy of gassillionaires are making loads a money but not creating jobs as the chart shows! Where is the investment going?
Walmart is now in the top league of 12 US companies by market capitalisation of over 1 Trillion. Its shares doubled in the past two years as it spent billions on e-commerce and it is now a credible competitor to Amazon -though still less than half its size.
Trump promised to slash electricity prices in half within a yr in office. Here is what happened. “It’s the economy stupid” we hope!
#irishtimes -“the way we say it” eh a soaked soggy utterly unreadable paper delivered my door in the green bag several times these wet days. If ur readers who pay can’t read it - the paper won’t last!
Cheer up. If Trump gets u down here is really good news: Extreme world poverty has declined massively!
In Time” is a super moving film biography of one of Ireland’s finest musicians and producers, Donal Lunny