Thomas Hubert: Making sense of multinationals’ billions
April 14, 2020 5:13 amSince Christmas, I’ve gone through 330 corporate filings made by 261 individual companies, interviewed economists on both sides of the... View Article
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As we rebuild the economy, we need to escape the perilous spiral of corporate debt
April 14, 2020 1:14 amCorporate finance is, seemingly, a boring, mundane subject in the world of high-speed, hyper-powered financial services, where assets trading can... View Article
Every cloud can have a silver lining: Keeping positive during Covid-19
April 13, 2020 5:46 amSpeaking from personal experience, staying at home, avoiding crowded areas and taking pre-cautions to avoid contracting the Covid-19 virus is... View Article
Anne Harris: “We cannot be immune to the stories. And we cannot weed out the dreamers. They are the poets and we need them now”
April 11, 2020 6:00 pmThe silence of the streets, the stillness of Irish villages this Easter Week is a necessity. We all get that.... View Article
Stephen Felle: The furlough controversy was out of character with the way Liverpool have helped Sean Cox
April 10, 2020 2:48 amThe announcement by Liverpool Football Club last weekend of controversial plans to furlough some non-playing staff under the UK Government’s... View Article
The big read: The economy is in a coma and it cannot be revived using the purified medicine of austerity
April 9, 2020 4:37 amKeep three numbers in your head. One thousand. One hundred. Ten. One thousand. We are experiencing the third pandemic of... View Article
Making Lemonade out of lemons: Six business lessons from Covid-19
April 8, 2020 4:41 amWriting about the aftermath of Covid-19 in Ireland might seem too soon. The world, the country and Ireland’s hospitals face... View Article
Prospects for global economic recovery: Why a recovery will be both V-shaped and U-shaped
April 7, 2020 1:51 amYesterday, it emerged that the number of people receiving income supports has soared to over 700,000, of which some 500,000... View Article
The doom loop: In this crisis, the inflation rate is a blinking red light
April 6, 2020 4:02 amThe economic crisis that comes with the coronavirus has two components. The first component is the shutdown. To prevent the... View Article
Nursing homes: The weakest link in the fight against Covid-19?
April 3, 2020 5:50 amOver the past weeks, I have repeatedly questioned whether our business as usual service has been pump-primed enough to enable... View Article
