Author: Frank Schnittger

Below the fold – The text of my Letter to the Editor of the Irish Times (hidden behind a subscription firewall) arguing the larger European case for the Lisbon Treaty.  (Cross-posted from the European Tribune in the...

Can Obama win the nomination and re-unite the Democratic party?  Can he regain the support of the white working class and other ethnic minorities put off by the (alleged) rhetorical excesses of Rev. Wright?  Will...

My wife, Muriel Boothman, died of cancer four years ago today.  I’ve been asked to do a talk on bereavement by the local hospice foundation who are organising an annual remembrance evening for those who have lost...

Urban myth has it that the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is THE SPLIT.  In other words, no sooner have people come together for a common purpose than they disagree, often quite bitterly, about what...

I’m no economist, much less a banker, but the sums of money being thrown at the “liquidity crisis” in the banking sector look pretty scary to me.  $200 Billion dollars in one go just recently. That’s...