Colm McCarthy: Qatar is not the only country building white elephant stadiums
December 3, 2022 3:40 amIreland has plenty of sports stadiums but not very many fixtures that attract big crowds. There are three large modern... View Article
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Sean Keyes: The banker pay cap had to go. We were cutting off our noses to spite our faces
December 2, 2022 4:42 pmIt’s one of Paschal Donohoe’s last acts as Minister for Finance: lifting the salary cap on Bank of Ireland, allowing... View Article
Patents, intellectual property and politics: A new infrastructure for our ideas
December 1, 2022 5:35 amPatents are incredibly important devices. They grant the holder exclusive rights for an invention. The invention could be a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to an existing problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years. Patents are... View Article
Sean Keyes on investing: what bravery buys you
November 30, 2022 4:25 amA theme of this email is that it’s useful to assume the market price is approximately right. It’s safer than... View Article
Sinead O’Sullivan: You’re kidding yourself if you think the financial markets are anything but Jurassic Park chaos
November 29, 2022 5:39 amIf I were to give anybody a piece of advice on how to live their most interesting and fulfilled lives,... View Article
Ponder Brexit and the Falklands: Deluded gestures can backfire spectacularly
November 28, 2022 5:55 amNobody needs to invest in the UK. Few need to own sterling. In practice, the UK faces an immovable fiscal... View Article
Bungalow Bliss: How rural Ireland built its own homes and laid the foundations for a culture war
November 26, 2022 4:14 amIn the 1970s in Ireland, you could buy a copy of the house design catalogue Bungalow Bliss for 90p, build... View Article
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
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
