LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Paul Krugman Nobel Lauteate on Economics on Moral Hazard

Wednesday the 14th of January 2009

"But the result is that people are careless about where they build houses and where they put their money.
This carelessness offers a tempting opportunity to unscrupulous businessmen: just open a bank, make sure that it has an impressive building and a fancy name. Attract a lot of deposits, by paying good interest if that is allowed, by offering free toasters or whatever if it isn't. Then lend money out at high interest rates , to high rolling speculators ( preferably friends of yours, or maybe even yourself behind a different corporate front). The depositors wont ask about the quality of your investments since they know they are protected in any case. And you now have a one way option: if the investments do well, you become rich; if they do badly, you can simply walk away and let the government clean up the mess.
Okay it's not that easy, because government regulators aren't entirely stupid.