Making deals is fun, and that’s why acquisitions usually fail
June 23, 2021 5:15 amSay you’re the CEO of a big publicly-traded company. What you’re meant to do is obsess over shareholder value all the time.... View Article
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There is no new space race: America’s ‘Great Power Competition’ is back. But what are we competing for?
June 22, 2021 5:30 amAs Neil Armstrong planted the Stars and Stripes on the moon on July 20, 1969, the United States of America... View Article
A small number of executives disgraced Davy. But the board’s handling of that disgrace raises big questions also
June 21, 2021 5:15 amReading through Tom’s three-part investigation into the Davy bond scandal last week, it was impossible not to focus on the... View Article
“Rugby was traditionally seen as the national sport, it’s now started to be talked of as a bit of a British sport.” How Welsh football transformed itself and the lessons for the FAI
June 19, 2021 5:15 amIn March 2007, an important event took place at Croke Park when Ireland’s footballers took on Wales. It was the... View Article
The Mother and Baby Homes report is a radical document which history will judge fairly
June 19, 2021 5:00 amMy mother, a flinty northerner transplanted to Cork, was not given to sentimentality or hero worshipping of any kind. But... View Article
The gambler, the insider trading trial and the enduring mystery of Phil Mickelson
June 18, 2021 5:45 amSuddenly, and without too much warning, Phil Mickelson is in a major flirtation with history. In ordinary times, his pursuit... View Article
Post-pandemic work: What Facebook’s residency rule change means for Irish workers and the state
June 17, 2021 5:15 amCritics often accuse economists of being out of touch or, as Marx called us, the scientific representatives of the bourgeois... View Article
Darkness ahead? Stocks, styles, discount rates & inflation
June 16, 2021 5:45 am‘The Great Crash’ by John Kenneth Galbraith is the definitive account of the Wall Street crash of 1929. From the... View Article
Private equity is running out of stuff to buy
June 16, 2021 5:30 amLast month I wrote about the strange phenomenon of global private equity (PE) firms buying up family-run insurance brokers in the market... View Article
The year of the doughnut city: how the pandemic is changing settlement patterns
June 15, 2021 5:45 amBehold the US housing market – an epic wave of dysfunctional supply, social greed and public fear swelling over the... View Article
