There can be no real dialogue while outrages against fairness an equity persist

IT is hard to see the wood for the trees given the deluge of claims, arguments and of course statistics being bandied about by all sides in the ongoing economic debate.

There are many firmly-held takes on the same inescapable reality which is our economic crisis.

Some of these have roamed very far from simple logic at this stage, which is not too surprising as the argument gets further and further stretched and strained. We have heard the construction industry claim house values have now reached the bottom.