As some of you may know, Nancy Pelosi has been scaring people with graphs, recently. By her metric, namely the absolute numbers of jobs lost, the current recession is more severe – and faster – than the last couple of regressions.
Naturally, something that high profile gained a lot of attention and ultimately modification. The one [...]
The Pelosi scare-graph revisited: Private sector job losses and camel recessions
Public Sector pay in Ireland & the €50,000 question: It’s not that difficult!
Watching Monday’s Questions & Answers, I became increasingly baffled as to how poorly understood the gap between public sector and private sector pay in Ireland actually is. I conducted a mini-straw poll, through the various media of living room chat, email and Twitter. That poll made me realise that while I had been labouring under [...]
