A substantial part of Ireland’s housing problem is economic illiteracy, dressed up as anti-landlord populism.
Foreseeable catastrophe.
The difference with the last major recession, in 2008, is that there does not at present appear to be a systemic problem with the financial system.
A new report has shown that Irish business insolvencies in 2023 were at their highest level in 5 years. When asked about this, Finance Minister Michael McGrath said that “some businesses which may not have been viable were sustained” during the Covid lockdown by government supports. Question by Ben Scallan. #gript
Global slump
Panda Power has told its customers that it has made “the difficult decision” to exit the electricity and gas market in Ireland. “Unfortunately, over the past 18 months our business has faced a series of external pressures due to unprecedented and insurmountable price increases in the international wholesale energy market which have risen by over […]
Listen – whether you love or hate Green TD Joe O’Brien, there’s one thing you can’t take away from that man; he truly understands the gravity of the housing crisis and the problems in Direct Provision. Which makes it all the more confusing why he would oppose a social housing plan in his own neighbourhood. […]
The real debate about Ireland’s dysfunctional housing market is not about the problem but rather about how to fix it. The prevailing view seems to be that the underlying problem exists because there isn’t enough interference in the housing market. Accordingly, the only way to fix Ireland’s dysfunctional housing market is through even more government […]
China and Musk rattle the market.
International surrogacy is often reviled as a system in which Western, mostly white people, exploit the bodies of women in underdeveloped countries, who are often women of colour. A typical feature in the media will display images of poor, heavily pregnant women in saris sleeping in a crowded dormitory. But this is not the image […]