Fringe Thoughts

Yet another great post by Paul Krugman on the significance of rising debt levels.
First here’s the image that went with the post:

And now the post itself:
Earlier this week I gave a talk about the state of the crisis at Princeton’s Plasma Physics Lab, and one audience member asked a really good question: if the problem […]

Irish Times reports:

THE NUMBER of vacant houses or apartments in the State stands at 345,000, or 17 per cent of all housing, according to new report published today by the Urban Environment Project at University College Dublin.