The French pledge: Why an Irish borrower forced his bank to pay a €1.6 million tax bill on his behalf
July 8, 2021 6:00 amThe saga begins in 2007 when the taxpayer, an Irish resident, borrowed €4.3 million from a French bank with an... View Article
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Sean Keyes on investing: ESG investing is meant to return less – that is the whole point
July 7, 2021 5:30 amThere’s a cynicism about the way some of the financial industry uses ESG investing. ESG (environmental, social and governance) is... View Article
We should lock-in low rates for decades: it is the Taleb & Summers thing to do
July 7, 2021 5:15 amUnsurprisingly, as the vaccine flow quickens normal politics is flooding back. Notwithstanding delta and the latest delay, the fading of... View Article
Rent pressure zones are counterproductive, and they harm the most vulnerable
July 6, 2021 6:00 amThe Minister for Housing announced a significant change in Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs). Rather than increases of up to four... View Article
Uber is just a loss-seeking company doing a truly awful job at trying to provide public transport
July 6, 2021 6:00 am“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” Gustavo Petro... View Article
To save main streets, towns have to get like shopping centres (and vice versa)
July 5, 2021 5:15 amMost things are snapping back normal after the pandemic at an impressive speed, but retail is not one of them. ... View Article
Jeffrey Donaldson, Brexit and the DUP’s unfortunate adventure with petrol and matches
July 3, 2021 5:45 amThe likely thing a stranger may notice on first meeting 58-year-old Jeffrey Donaldson is the aftershave. He is dapper. A... View Article
“For a while he wouldn’t let his staff use the word ‘insurgents’. He thought he could make it all go away by pretending it wasn’t happening”
July 3, 2021 5:30 amRichard Nixon’s view of Donald Rumsfeld was that he was “a ruthless little bastard”. Nixon, Andrew Cockburn says, may well... View Article
England are driven by emotion as they try to avoid the clichés of redemption
July 3, 2021 5:15 amBefore England played Germany on Tuesday night, Gareth Southgate explained his part in his country’s defeat by Germany at Wembley... View Article
Donohoe’s last stand for the 12.5% tax rate is a temporary poker bluff
July 2, 2021 6:45 amIreland, Barbados, Estonia, Hungary, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka: These are the nine countries, among... View Article
