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Full coverage: Inflation

The opportunities of a “normalised” world: Reimagining the year ahead

Monetary policy is normalising, leaving us facing both opportunities and challenges in 2024. Let's hope for more of the former and less of the latter. 

Ian Kehoe
24th Dec, 2023 - 5 min read

Peter Kinsella: The US has a debt problem. We should all be worried

Moody’s decision to put the US on a negative watch was fully warranted, reflecting political dysfunction on an epic scale. The lack of any cohesive plan to deal with the US debt trajectory makes it more likely that other rating agencies will follow suit.

Peter Kinsella
1st Dec, 2023 - 6 min read

“The cost of delivery is going up, investors want higher returns – someone is getting squeezed”

The first wind farm in Ireland’s race to 80% renewable power returned a 25% margin to its developer. Then the energy world changed.

Thomas Hubert
15th Nov, 2023 - 7 min read

Cerberus’s Irish vulture fund deals were heavily leveraged – now interest rates are rising

Vehicles used by the US investment firm to purchase distressed Irish loans are reporting pressure from their own lenders and discounting the value of their portfolios, triggering various responses to the resulting profit squeeze.

Thomas Hubert
6th Nov, 2023 - 9 min read

“The budget is a very private process. What emerges in public is just a small bit of everything that goes on”

Paschal Donohoe has been involved in crafting the last eight budgets. In a major interview, he addresses the risks of fuelling inflation and baking in non-core expenditure, his change of heart on mortgage interest relief and the limits to health spending.

Ian Kehoe
13th Oct, 2023 - 12 min read

Getting serious on inflation: Rewinding the week that was

Prolonged high inflation is "incredibly socially divisive and economically very injurious," says Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe ahead of the budget. This theme threads through all others discussed in his interview with The Currency last week.

Ian Kehoe
1st Oct, 2023 - 6 min read

“The 2020s is one of these big decades”: Philip Lane on pandemics, wars and inflation

What is new in the spike in prices that followed Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine? How are corporate profits feeding into it? And how does Europe escape an inflation spiral? Stephen Kinsella meets the ECB’s chief economist.

Stephen Kinsella
5th Sep, 2023 - 20 min read

Siobhán Talbot retires from Glanbia on a high but her Slimfast acquisition drags performance down

Glanbia boss Siobhán Talbot has given her last half-year results presentation, confirming the group’s ability to leverage price rises and cut debt in the current inflationary environment.

Thomas Hubert
17th Aug, 2023 - 5 min read

Kerry and Queally: How two Irish food businesses face inflation

New figures from the listed food technology giant and the Waterford meat processing family business reveal different strategies to navigate the same environment.

Thomas Hubert
3rd Aug, 2023 - 5 min read

The Irish economy: Where are we now? Where are we going?

Ahead of the next budget, it's time to check the economic state of the nation again. Economically speaking, things have never been better. Socially, of course, it depends entirely on whether you have access to assets and services.

Stephen Kinsella
14th Jul, 2023 - 6 min read
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