You know the old saying about waiting ages for a bus – and then three Streetcars of Desire come along? Having banged on for the last few years about the benefits of hybrid bus-tram rapid transit, I’ve felt a bit like that since last August when Frank McDonald interviewed Aris Venetikidis in the Irish Times [...]
Nat O’Connor’s Seven principles for taxation are that it should be stable, sustainable, adequate, progressive, efficient, transparent and responsive to economic, social and environmental externalities. Ultimately, the taxation discussion should begin with what kind of public services people in Ireland really want. And when we can calculate the likely cost of these services, we can [...]
Oil, and therefore petrol, will run dry in the next 15-20 years. Earlier estimates put it at 30 years or more, but didn’t take account of the rise of China and India as first world economies – which in today’s terms, means enormous consumers of oil. I believe that when the concept of holistic accounting [...]
