I recently spent three weeks crossing the US coast to coast on a trip initially booked for… April 2020. This was my second time in the country, the first in 25 years. I was there as a tourist and I’m not going to inflict a holiday diary on The Currency’s readers. I wasn’t conducting research or interviews either, which was explicitly prohibited by my visa waiver. Yet as a journalist, I couldn’t help noticing a series of economic facts that may have echoes or repercussions here. The US is, after all, the country most influential on the Irish economy and…

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