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Tue 08 Aug 2010Flogging off all our best assets is not the solution
The terms of reference for this group ensure the only outcome will be wholesale privatisations. It will be a fire sale, writes PAUL SWEENEY
THIS GOVERNMENT has made some stupid and costly economic decisions – the bailout of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide, the Nama valuations, the blanket bank guarantees, its fiscal policy. Now it plans to flog off indigenous companies at a time when solid enterprises are needed.
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