Innovating Ireland: “We have tech and we have sea. Now we need to make Ireland a marine tech hub“
January 8, 2020 6:00 amOne of the safer bets we can make is that Ireland will still be an island in 20 years. Accordingly,... View Article
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Creative destruction and consumer credit: A Fintech song for the Irish banks
January 7, 2020 6:00 amTwo interesting and interconnected, at deeper level, headlines of the holidays’ season have caught my attention. Households, credit cards and the... View Article
Investors beware: Why risk in a bank is of a fundamentally different order to almost any other investment
January 6, 2020 6:00 amBank shareholders are having a hard time. Squeezed margins and weighty regulation have dampened profit and potential for traditional banks... View Article
How the legacy of Nixon is still shaping the world. The combined series by John Looby
January 3, 2020 6:00 amThe world changed on the 15th of August 1971. After almost a quarter of a millennium broadly tied to gold,... View Article
Stephen Kinsella: We are on the cusp of a Thunberg moment in global tax, where we say ‘no more, we have to change’
January 2, 2020 6:10 am2020 will be the year the world collectively wakes up. We will wake up to the toxic relationship that exists... View Article
Where are we going? The complete series by Stephen Kinsella
January 1, 2020 7:00 amForeword Good habits give you insights for free. One habit I have is reading last year’s headlines, every day, using... View Article
Wasted time is worse than wasting money. And there is nothing worse than someone else wasting your time
December 23, 2019 5:50 amLast week my colleague and I were left waiting 27 minutes in a reception area for a scheduled meeting to... View Article
Facing down fear: Pete Smyth meets Annalise Murphy
December 20, 2019 5:50 amWelcome to the fourth edition of the Potential Squared podcast, where I chat with successful Irish people about their leadership... View Article
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
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
