Just how much social housing is the state actually building?
June 26, 2020 5:30 amThe draft Programme for Government commits to deliver 50,000 social homes over the next five years. The document promises to... View Article
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We have always viewed politics and the economy through the lens of property. How has Covid-19 redrawn the market?
June 25, 2020 5:28 amIn 2018 Robin Dillon-Merrill and her colleagues looked at the impact of different types of natural disasters on US real... View Article
“Investors would be wise to keep a close eye on how Trump deals with external relations over the coming months”
June 24, 2020 5:41 amAt the beginning of the year, US President Donald Trump was in the ascendency. The consensus opinion among analysts was... View Article
Cut and run or double down: Why the Programme for Government has stranded our banks in a twilight zone
June 23, 2020 4:31 amSeveral years ago, I was asked by a major international bank to support a strategic review of one of their... View Article
The road less taken: What food businesses can learn from Kerry Group’s Covid-19 strategy
June 22, 2020 4:28 amIn the midst of a true crisis in the food business, with widespread reports of milk being dumped down drains,... View Article
“Perhaps getting old is like developing a telescopic vision, you can see the then and the now simultaneously”
June 20, 2020 5:00 amTo paraphrase WB Yeats: ‘Is that the ghost of Richard Nixon, beating on the door?’ Is ‘tricky Dickie’ back again,... View Article
What’s next for the Irish economy? Yes, we can borrow to fund the recovery, but we will also have to increase taxes
June 18, 2020 5:50 amOn Wednesday, I gave evidence to the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. Along with Alan Barrett, Karina Doorley and... View Article
Time for Ireland to ponder the thoughts of Taleb
June 17, 2020 4:59 amNassim Nicholas Taleb seems to gleefully stoke debate. Since he first burst into popular consciousness in 2001 with his best-selling... View Article
Climate, energy, transport, agriculture: How green is the programme for government?
June 16, 2020 4:51 amOut of the 126-page Programme for Government put by Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar and Eamon Ryan to the vote of... View Article
This programme for government envisages a much larger, more activist, state. And this has to be paid for with higher taxes
June 16, 2020 4:40 amIn his song Step Right Up, the artist Tom Waits has some wisdom for the parties entering government, especially related... View Article
