John Looby: How Buffett and Taleb overcome the dumb money effect
April 17, 2025 5:03 amAll empires end. History is heavy with the scattered debris of their crumbling. Some combination of overreach, competition and time... View Article
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Connecting grids across the North seas shows ambition, as long as countries avoid Norway’s problems
April 16, 2025 5:33 amEirGrid made some interesting announcements at last week’s Wind Energy Europe conference in Copenhagen. Described to me by one government... View Article
Joe Gill: Boeing offers highly paid jobs in the US – if it can trade tariff-free
April 15, 2025 10:30 amImagine being a supply chain executive in Boeing. After a barrage of announcements about tariffs in the United States, you... View Article
Corporate rocket fuel: How to choose the right funding option for scaling a start-up
April 15, 2025 5:22 amBuoyed by a blend of homegrown innovation, international growth opportunities, and a maturing venture market, Irish companies like LetsGetChecked, Tines,... View Article
Boardroom matters: Patrick Dunne on AI, hiring a CEO, and the thorny issue of remuneration
April 14, 2025 5:50 amPatrick Dunne is a Liverpudlian with strong Irish roots; his grandmother hailed from Ringsend in Dublin. He was recently in... View Article
Trying to make sense of what’s going on? There is no sense: Rewinding the week that was
April 13, 2025 5:30 amStripe is essentially the backbone of the financial internet. In 2024, the company processed $1.4 trillion of payments on behalf... View Article
Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession
April 12, 2025 5:20 am“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer... View Article
Colm McCarthy: American unilateralism and Ireland’s record in “economic wars”
April 10, 2025 10:49 amTánaiste Simon Harris met US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in Washington on Wednesday, coincidentally the day tariffs collected on... View Article
Tara Shine: Living with uncertainty as the EU rows back on its Green Deal
April 9, 2025 5:27 amYears ago, I read the book Living with Uncertainty by Ian Scoones about how pastoral communities live with the uncertainty... View Article
Willy Wonka, anonymity of requesters and the right to not be known
April 8, 2025 5:57 amIt is not every day that State officials receive information requests seeking documents on forestry policy from Willy Wonka, Mel... View Article
