Keynes at Versailles and Bretton Woods: The lessons for today
May 8, 2020 4:00 amFor now, we are dominated by the pandemic. The battle for life and livelihood is all. In response, many leaders... View Article
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We are missing the ‘M’ in SME recovery plan, and those firms who sponsor GAA teams are the backbone of the real economy
May 7, 2020 4:35 amThink about the futures of the kind of firms that sponsor GAA teams. Most are domestically owned and grown in... View Article
Forget talks of a market depression, new highs in global equity markets are entirely feasible over the coming 12 months
May 6, 2020 4:35 amAt the beginning of the year, the overwhelming consensus on the markets was that equity markets were set to grind... View Article
The fiction of a V-shaped recovery hides the weaknesses in Ireland’s labour market
May 5, 2020 5:30 amThought leadership is the private sector’s polite term for an exercise in spinning secondary and occasionally primary data into a... View Article
“Here in Latin America, it is a question of hunger versus disease. And hunger kills 100% of the people 100% of the time”
May 4, 2020 5:10 amChairman Mao measured the success of Communist China’s Great Leap Forward by focusing exclusively on backyard steel furnace production, and... View Article
“Amid escalating climate emergency, business-as-usual is a road to unmitigated ruin”
May 1, 2020 4:32 amIn early January, 2019, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof penned an article titled: ‘Why 2018 was the best year... View Article
Between stimulus and state lies risk: The economy must be bailed out but borrowing can’t fund everything forever
April 30, 2020 5:08 amPerhaps the defining feature of this crisis is the sheer amount of uncertainty it has generated. We are uncertain of... View Article
Peter Kinsella: The Italian economy is back on the radar – and it could have big implications for Ireland
April 29, 2020 3:50 amAt its April 9 meeting, the Eurogroup (eurozone finance ministers) was supposed to come up with a viable means of... View Article
“100-year social housing leases are Bertienomics at its very worst”
April 28, 2020 4:52 amTwo weeks ago, Fianna Fáil government negotiator Barry Cowen told The Business Post that a key part of the proposed... View Article
China’s 10% contraction – a look into the numbers and what they mean
April 27, 2020 5:30 amChina has recently released its first-quarter economic data. The long-term economic miracle has ground to a halt. The economy has... View Article
