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?
The younger cohorts of the Democrats hold zero allegiance to the old Washington Consensus that guaranteed Ireland’s place in the world of global commerce. Instead, they view exports to the US with both suspicion and distrust.
In his first report from China, ag-tech executive Ian Lahiffe writes that many find a comfort to the sacrifices being made in civil liberties for the ‘greater good’ and the era of surveillance had only made that proposition stronger.
Spurred by unprecedented low-cost long-term funding, Ireland needs to win the case in Brussels for splitting the capital budget from the current budget, and to fund the former separately as a long-term asset.
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