The Nobel prize-winning economist  writes:

A reader directs me to this interview with John Peet, the Europe editor of The Economist, who declares: “And of the countries that were in trouble, I would say Ireland looks as if it’s the best at the moment because Ireland has implemented very heavy austerity programs, but is now beginning to grow again.”

From Ireland’s Central Statistical Office:

See the return to growth, there at the end? Me neither. To be fair, Peet isn’t alone. The legend of Irish recovery has somehow set in, and nobody on the pro-austerity side seems to feel any need to look at the data, even for a minute, to check whether the legend is true. Amazing.

Austerity Fantasies (Paul Krugman, New York Times)


Up on the International Space Station, astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates the weird behaviour of antibubbles (droplets of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas – the opposite of ordinary gas bubbles).

Part of his ongoing series of physics experiments in collaboration with Physics Central.

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From left: Joe Higgins TD, Cllr Ruth Coppinger, Clare Daly TD and Paul Murphy MEP at the launch  of the Socialist Party’s ‘No’ Poster campaign a little earlier.

Now, where have we seen the one on the left before?

Oh.

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Yesterday, the Empire State Building ceased to be the tallest skyscraper in New York for the second time.

Still under construction and due to top out at 541m by December, One World Trade Center just passed the Empire State’s 381m mark.

Previously: The World Trade Center: 2004 – 2011

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfF1SgPp9nw

Finally.

Dole TV explains Nama:

A lot of research was done for us by Dr Conor McCabe and Unlock Nama. All made by unemployed people. No budget. Quote form celebrated Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis: “Positively brilliant. The truth behind the Irish state’s insolvency. Bankruptocracy at is best (or is it worst)? “

This, etc.

“includes two five-star hotels, a Chinese palace, 445,000sqm of exhibition halls, a commercial zone of 264,000sq m and some 186,000sq m of serviced apartments.”

 

Also..
A theatre.
A shopping centre.
A sports and fitness centre.
A convention centre.
A hospital.
A school.
A bank.
A petrol station.
A train station.
A replica Great Wall of China
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