Investors believe that sticky levels of underlying inflation may be here to stay. For highly indebted economies that may be no bad thing. For manufacturing-based economies, it clearly poses severe challenges.
When you get down to brass tacks, our economic future is tethered to the whims of our international trading partners and a handful of multinational taxpayers. But, as the data highlights, we are at least coming from a position of strength.
The market has seen something close to double-digit inflation despite (or on top of) all the increases seen in the previous decade. How has that happened?
Driven partly by inflationary woes, an unusually large number of incumbent governments have been booted out of office by voters. How have Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil seemingly escaped the wrath of voters on inflation?
Trump's regime shift appears to be protectionist with higher tariffs and the unleashing of animal spirits in the economy. Assumptions about impending sky-high inflation levels are likely wide of the mark.
The US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell opted to cut interest rates this week for the first time since March 2020, when Covid was wreaking havoc on global economies. What happens next?
It’s time for stock investors – especially those passively tracking the index – to reduce risk and increase opportunity. We’ll rarely get a better chance.
There was a time when rows between governments and their economic advisers on inflation and spending unfolded in oak-lined boardrooms. Now, they are taking place on social media.
While nominal incomes have risen sharply, the real value of those incomes has increased only slightly. It is the source of our discontent.
Small businesses across the country are facing an existential crisis on many fronts, including state-induced higher costs. Modelling the latest Government announcements on PRSI and grants shows they don't go far enough.
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