Don’t believe the hype – the inflation bump is likely to be modest and temporary
May 28, 2021 5:45 amStocks are down quite a bit, along with corporate and government bonds. Why is that? Well, given that valuations have... View Article
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Stephen Kinsella: The social physics of housing
May 27, 2021 4:45 amEconomics has always wanted to be like physics, where you can base a prediction on an invariant set of laws.... View Article
Three reasons to be sceptical about central bank-issued digital currencies
May 26, 2021 5:30 amChina and the eurozone, the UK and the global heads of the IMF, the US and Sri Lanka, Bahamas and... View Article
Companies invest differently now, and that has warped the markets
May 26, 2021 5:15 amThe markets have been acting strangely for the last ten years or so. Something is going on. Strange thing number... View Article
In defence of supermarket queues: The economics of efficiency and why it is an eternal race to the bottom
May 25, 2021 5:30 amIn late April of this year, a Portuguese start-up, Sensei, raised $6.5 million to enable it to scale a technology... View Article
Institutional investors help renters by increasing supply without increasing demand. Pushing them out hurts renters
May 24, 2021 5:15 amThere has been much negative commentary in the past few weeks about cuckoo funds acquiring newly built homes. There is... View Article
“What we invest in these teams in terms of our love, our blood, our sweat and our tears actually gives them value”
May 22, 2021 6:00 am“The good guys have won.” When the Super League proposals collapsed within a few days, save for the spirited and... View Article
The GAA’s search for meaning – how will the association reinvent itself after the pandemic?
May 22, 2021 5:45 amFinally, over the past fortnight, Gaelic games have resumed. Real live action with full contact. It was a welcome if... View Article
Endgame: the whirlwind week that set the scene for corporation tax’s final showdown
May 21, 2021 7:20 pmThe acceleration of the pace towards new taxation rules for multinationals in the past week has been breathtaking. Just like... View Article
The 14 questions that every business needs to ask to help prevent – and deal with – a cyber attack
May 21, 2021 5:30 amAs the HSE began to comprehend the severity and the consequences of the ransomware hack, many business owners and company... View Article
