As Ireland votes, get some depth on the economic impact of your vote: The Currency has interviewed frontbenchers from the five leading parties at length on business issues, while Stephen Kinsella crunches the numbers and unveils the faultlines revealed by the campaign.
To grow its vote share in middle Ireland, Sinn Féin needs to project solidity and competence. Pearse Doherty aims to fit the bill. In his pre-election interview, he outlines, and defends, the party's radical, ambitious, and expensive manifesto.
The good news is, to-date, the latest global health crisis does not seem to be a trigger for a major and sustained sell-off. The bad news is, we are yet to see its full impact.
Where they go, Ireland goes. In part three of his series on where Ireland is going, Stephen Kinsella looks at the institutional design of our society, analyses our ruling ideas, and asks which sets of interests dominate.
The establishment believes banks are different and treats them differently. This is not a cyclical and temporary issue; it is structural and permanent. A universal reality confirmed by the recent travails of Deutsche Bank.
Where we are going as a country depends on our choice of the structural features of our economy, on the dynamic path we choose to walk. We need to remember that many of these structural choices are still within our gift to make.
The world still needs and therefore demands dollars. Notwithstanding the relative decline of the US economy, the dollar remains the QWERTY keyboard of the global monetary system.
In the first article of a new series, Stephen Kinsella explores the state of Ireland, starting with the expectations people have for them and their children.
Nixon lives on. The bulge of credit, debt and danger has simply been shunted into the shadows of leveraged loans, junk bonds, emerging market debt and myriad other dim crevices.
Recent job losses at pharma and electronics companies grabbed the headlines, but what is really happening in Ireland's manufacturing sector?
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