Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

[cjppjc]

Re: Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

Funny stuff. Must be great to live in Oz.

Btw: A good case could be made that U2 is now #2 on the all time greatest list.

[Diarmuid]

Re: Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

"Many of the same "advantages" can be found in Latvia, Estonia and other Eastern European states which are also undergoing the same dramatic implosion"

One of my wife's friends' husband just came back to Latvia from Ireland where he has been living on unemployment compensation for a while now, no new job in sight there apparently. He is planning on keeping his Irish unemployment compensation while working "unofficially" in Latvia, will be interesting to see how long he can manage to do that.

Not too long I would say

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...s-1820388.html

IRELAND has moved from having the second lowest unemployment rate among the EU-15 countries two years ago to the second highest, calculations from the OECD show.
Joblessness has risen faster in Ireland than anywhere else, reflecting the sudden collapse of the building boom.
The 11.7pc rate recorded for May is 85pc higher than the average for last year. :eek:




http://www.irishexaminerusa.com/mt/2...oaches_fi.html


An Exchequer deficit of €14,709 million was recorded in the six months to end-June 2009 compared to a deficit of €5,648 million in the same period last year according to the Exchequer Returns submitted at the end of June.
Total current receipts in the six months to end June 2009 amounted to €16,310 million compared to €19,525 million in the same period last year, while tax revenue was €188 million or 1.2% below expectations for the period and was down by 17.3% year-on-year :eek:

I would say (only half jokingly) Irish citzens may have problems getting unemployment benefits nor mind Eastern Europeans if things get much worse.

[cobben]

Re: Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

Ireland has been one of the favorite countries for Latvians & other European "Mexicans" (Swedes also - much of Swedish language IT sales & support is done from Ireland) to work in, the others being the UK, Norway, Denmark also I believe (Sweden was not even on the list).

If all the economic emigrants return to their respective homelands with no money when their unemployment compensation gets cut off, things could become very interesting. Many of the Latvians at least have been paying off their Latvian mortgage with their Irish income, this could precipitate the next leg down in real estate here, I'm looking for a second 50% off within a few years.

[Paddy]

Re: Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

Meanwhile, back in my homeland.....

The statues are starting to move again (Diarmuid knows what I'm talking about)...

gawd....



Locals to meet priest in bid to save stump

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People at the stump, which some believe depicts an image of the Virgin Mary, in the church grounds in Rathkeale yesterday

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By Barry Duggan

Wednesday July 15 2009

PARISHIONERS in a west Limerick town are to meet their local priest this week in a bid to keep a tree stump they claim depicts the image of the Virgin Mary.
Parish priest Father Joe Dempsey returned from holidays to find that Rathkeale, Co Limerick, had become the centre of worldwide media attention after workmen removing trees from St Mary's Church grounds claimed to have revealed the religious figure in an 80-year-old tree stump.
Fr Dempsey has agreed with his colleague Fr Willie Russell, who said there was nothing in the four-foot tree stump.
Local businessman Seamus Hogan said visitors to the area were not worshipping the willow tree stump, but Our Lady.
"There are huge crowds still coming. We are not venerating the tree; we are venerating Our Lady, whose image we receive from it. It is the same as a marble statue inside the church," Mr Hogan said.
"We hope the church decides to leave it where it is and we will try to meet with Fr Dempsey over the next day or so."
More than 2,000 people in the Rathkeale area have signed a petition to prevent the removal of the stump.
"There is a rosary each night and looking around me now, I can see English registered cars and Northern Ireland registered cars also.
"We had Pakistanis and people from India here today. It is drawing huge crowds," Mr Hogan said.
Some enthusiastic visitors have even removed bits of wood from the tree stump.
"We want to get a glass or Perspex cover put over it as people are taking pieces off it.
"They believe they will get a cure from it or want to keep something as a memento from it," Mr Hogan added.

[don]

Re: Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

Ireland. It's rich cultural history with the U.S. The ebb and flow of Irish labor to the U.S. and its varied acceptance. The Irish experience with the boom times and now the collapse. The class aggravations rising. And now mysticism. It provides just enough distance for Americans to glimpse their own buried home sale saints in their Florida-Cali-Nevada front yards. Erin Go Bragh.

[wayiwalk]

Re: Seen the Celtic Tiger lately?

What was the fertility rate/growth rate in the US between 1930 and 1945?

Just before the baby boom.

Are you looking at all the right predictors? Also, is fertility rate just that, does it consider death rate (100%, ha ha), or whatever the average lifespan is. Africa may have a high fertility rate, but I don't think there are many octengenarians there.

Interesting thoughts, I will want to look at this more closely later....my last tipping point for the US (freedom of speech) is in the balance....the only reason people with tech smarts still come/stay here.