Scale, technology, and capital: Why Liberty is retreating from the Irish insurance market
November 25, 2022 3:46 amBack in his halcyon days, long before he lost control of his sprawling business empire and was declared bankrupt, the... View Article
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Stephen Kinsella: How to fix Ireland’s infrastructure deficit
November 24, 2022 3:33 amIreland is a rich country in the sense that median household incomes are higher than most other countries in the... View Article
Sean Keyes on investing: money-burning technology companies weren’t crazy
November 23, 2022 5:00 amHaving overseen the loss of $8 billion so far on Disney+, Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek got sacked this week. Chapek had associated himself with... View Article
Appeals, cross-appeals, and the British Virgin Islands: Revenue’s assault on a €60m tax scheme takes a new turn
November 22, 2022 3:34 amIt was, by any standard, an important judgment. For more than a decade, the Irish tax authority had sought to... View Article
Peter Kinsella: Christmas has come early for equity markets. Can it last?
November 21, 2022 5:33 amLast week, global equity markets went on a tear. The US S&P 500 index rose by over 6 per cent... View Article
To reach your investing potential, do these four things
November 14, 2022 5:36 amNassim Taleb has many insights. In “The Logic of Risk-Taking”, he summarised one with serious implications for investors: “Time to... View Article
Small teams with big impacts: Rewinding the week that was
November 13, 2022 5:03 amThe “let Michael O’Leary run it” school of thought says political problems could be easily fixed by a pragmatic, common-sense... View Article
Fintan Drury: Blackrock College prides itself on being a leader of men, now it needs to prove it
November 13, 2022 4:02 amIt was a special occasion to mark the centenary of the founding of the Blackrock College Past Pupils Union. It... View Article
Tommie Gorman: The loneliness of the goalkeeper and why we need to be mindful of our sportspeople
November 12, 2022 4:22 amCiarán Kelly is busy this weekend in his role as sporting director of Lusail City, who play in Qatar’s Second... View Article
Big Tech, small country – and not a time to play Chicken Little
November 10, 2022 5:09 amBig Tech is having a… moment. I am writing this on November 9. In terms of layoffs announced this month,... View Article
