Texts and Emails, Wednesday 24 February 2010

Topic: A double dip recession?

Guests: Sandeep Gopalan (NUIM, formerly an investment banker with Lehman Bros), Paul Sommerville (Delta Index), Marie Sherlock (SIPTU economist) and Eamon Quinn (Associate Business Editor, Sunday Tribune) discuss the issue.  Mary O'Rourke (FF) and Sen Dan Boyle (Greens) previewed the papers.

It would be great if George Lee, Micheal O' Leary and John Williams started up their own Party I think a lot of people would vote for them. BRIAN D.3

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Isn't it ironic that the countries in the P.I.G.S category in the EU are currently the ones enduring the worst economic circumstances in all of Europe and these countries were the ones singled out in Richard Wilkinson and Sandy Pickett's book The Spirit Level for having the highest rates of in-equality in all of Europe. Alan, Raheny

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Why the delay in nama ? Is it because the EU know its flawed and our grandchildren will b burdened with this millstone. Worried taxpayer. Dave in Blackrock

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Please ask the panel about Merrill Lynch and Rothschilds advising on nama and their vested interests

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Does any of the panel think regulating cannabis sales like california wish to do for the tax is a good idea. The dutch make 6 billion a year in tax

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Please ask Dan Boyle, that given their sky is falling attitude to the weather, the fact that they are a statistical anomaly in the polls, and that they are now FF lackeys, if perhaps the rest of The Green Party should admit the game is up, and also resign... Martin Carrick-on-suir.

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There will always be recessions until we give Capitalism the boot! Adam, Dublin 9.

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Can you please ask if the government will forbid nama taking bad debts where the title to land or part finished estates etc is not clear. If multiple banks gave loans to a developer which bank if any has title. Thanks. Sean

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What we should do is just have one not for profit good publicly owned bank. Kieran McNulty, People Before Profit, Tralee.

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A double dip will happen because too much downsizing means there is no one left to buy goods. Also zero stimulus from this idiot govt will make it a double dip with no cherry on top. We're all screwed! Kind regards Morgan McCabe. Newbridge

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You are forgetting international speculators who are short selling on our defaulting on our sovergn debt. The banks are at the heart of this.

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How the hell is a single person expected to get on property ladder when wages are being cut , interest rates are going to rise and property prices are said to be creeping up again , this government needs to be shafted quickly before we all in down . Monica Waterford

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The irish public is enslaved to the dept! Any borrowed money enslaves the future generations still futher. Workers paradise? Private bank paradise, enslaves people globaly. Eg federal reserve owns the US, a private bank, Mr P.

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Does that union lady not understand that public servants here are over paid inefficient and smug to say the least? Costing us a fortune not to mention their db pensions. Anyone of them on a go slow or threating strike should be fired. When will they see the light. We are fed up of them to say the least. They are as much to blame as the banks property developers and the politicians. They should be ashamed of themselves. The unions are a complete disgrace and should be tried for treason. Mary

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