Why Ireland Has Too Much Money (and doesn't know how to spend it)

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In this video, we’re going to explain Ireland’s turn of fortune, and why the government is actually struggling to spend its newfound fiscal space.

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Sources:

Ireland vs EU budget surplus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Background on Ireland’s economy
Sweeney, P. The Celtic Tiger: Ireland’s Continuing Economic Miracle. (Oak Tree Press, Dublin, Second edition, 1999)

Ireland’s corporation tax intake
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Ireland’s corporation tax intake of entire intake
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c...

Ireland’s third budget surplus
https://www.ft.com/content/bda76023-5...

New fiscal rule limiting government spending https://www.euronews.com/business/202...

Ireland’s changing public sector investment
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/L...

Ireland’s public investment data
https://www.itf-oecd.org/infrastructu...

Ireland’s public investment data
https://www.ft.com/content/57aaa383-3...

Ireland’s housing crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/0af7eb4b-9...

Ireland’s new wealth fund
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro...

Ireland inflation
https://tradingeconomics.com/ireland/...

Corporate taxes have saving economy from deficits
https://www.ft.com/content/bda76023-5...

Ten companies accounting for over half of ireland’s tax recipets
https://www.thejournal.ie/why-is-irel...