Fuel costs driving inflation
Ireland suffers from a cost of living crisis because fundamentally it suffers from a supply crisis:
Government policy in almost every area of Irish life is driving prices through the roof.
Parliamentary Budget Office say inflation at 12-year high
Energy costs driving inflation
The vice-president of the European Central Bank has said that the record levels of inflation that the Euro is currently experiencing are “not as temporary” as previously believed. Luis de Guindos, who was previously Spain’s economy Minister, has said that the inflation Europe’s currency is feeling may last longer than the ECB had expected. Eurozone […]
Carbon taxes and wheat prices
If you’re in your late thirties, like me, then you are just about old enough to remember the evils of inflation, and the problems it wrought on the Irish economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the value of money decreased, prices went up. As prices went up, the Government tried to make […]
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PODCAST: Listen to John Aidan Byrne, Irish commentator based in New York, talks Dick Bove on the return of 1970s style inflation in the US Odeon Capital Group’s Dick Bove sees US prices soaring 70s-style as US money printing hits new records, and national debt exceeds $28 trillion Dick Bove, the famed bank analyst […]