Tax and trade: Why diamonds are a director’s best friend
December 20, 2019 5:50 amDe Beers diamond mining company was founded in South Africa in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes with finance from the Rothschilds,... View Article
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From nuclear tensions to beer boycott: Japan and South Korea’s dangerous face-off
December 19, 2019 5:55 amHaving been over and back to Korea and Japan in the past few months, I have been struck by the... View Article
John Looby: Why try to beat the market? Because you can. Don’t stop believing
December 18, 2019 5:50 amThe Efficient Markets Hypotheses The dominant orthodoxy in finance over the past seventy years is the Efficient Markets Hypotheses. Developed... View Article
A potential risk growth hormone: What the financial transaction tax would mean for Ireland, Irish banks and Irish investors
December 17, 2019 6:00 amEleven years after the peak of the global financial crisis, the EU is still struggling to introduce a functional financial... View Article
Give the gift of The Currency this Christmas
December 17, 2019 5:50 amThe Currency is pleased to be able to offer annual gift memberships this Christmas. Give a friend, relative or business... View Article
Boris’s economic time bomb? Why the border down the Irish Sea will pit the single market versus the UK post-Brexit economy
December 16, 2019 5:50 amStrange how small political cameos can float out from of the past. Towards dawn on Friday morning, as the size... View Article
Dispatch from Hainan: more at stake than meets the eye in China’s Hawaii
December 13, 2019 6:00 amLast weekend I took the opportunity to escape the cold in Beijing and spent a weekend in the balmy environs... View Article
Where are we going part 6: We are going where the children take us
December 12, 2019 5:50 am‘Juxtaposition’ is one of those words it is easy to hate. When you juxtapose, you achieve a contrast by placing... View Article
Tom McGurk: “The DUP’s indifference to business Brexit fears has to come at a political price”
December 11, 2019 5:50 amThursday’s Westminster election may produce huge surprises in Northern Ireland, but what will it produce in Britain post-Brexit? In matters... View Article
Charting commodity prices: Why Irish agri-food needs to exit the price race to the bottom
December 10, 2019 6:00 amFarmers have continued their protests at distribution centres serving supermarkets in recent days to express their anger at the low... View Article
