Predicting the direction of stock markets has arguably never been more challenging. All we can be confident about right now is that there will be a correction – eventually.
The Government will closely watch the introduction of new EU tax-efficient savings and investment accounts. But the funds industry may spy a big opportunity to act as the home for the bloc's newest investors.
If a balance in policy between pro-enterprise and pro-redistribution is to be maintained, those who believe in that balance, and the pro-enterprise part of it in particular, will need to up their game in the years ahead.
Future-proofing society means preparing not for a world of many more people, but for one where there may soon be far fewer.
The band might be back together. But bands age. Fingers slow. Voices crack. And reunion tours, no matter how nostalgic, never quite capture the magic of the original.
Now in his 16th budget debate as Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty outlines ideological differences with the Government on housing, the taxation of large and small businesses, and income redistribution in a cost-of-living crisis.
Ireland is in a bubble, not one related to credit, but to complacency and a misunderstanding of the world as it now is.
Despite strong warnings from the Central Bank, the ESRI and the Fiscal Advisory Council, the government looks set to blow past its own spending rules. Colm McCarthy warns that Ireland risks repeating old mistakes.
Currencies don’t lie. They give a real-time vindication or condemnation for a country’s economic outlook, and the standing of the pound is sending warning signals ahead of November's UK budget.
While the Irish economy continues to thrive, it presents no justification for runaway budget spending and remains exposed to US risks – but still offers a healthier picture than those of its neighbours.
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