Donald Trump brings chaos, rhetorical or otherwise. The Irish economic model is based on certainty. The priority for the next government, regardless of its composition, will be to maintain this certainty amid such chaos. Much depends on it.
At 79, Wilbur Ross, dubbed ‘the King of Bankruptcy” on Wall Street, became the oldest-ever cabinet member when he served under Donald Trump. He talks about politics, business, and how he helped save one of Ireland’s biggest banks.
Perhaps it is the Vibecession. Perhaps it is the agitated focus on inflation. The trouble is, Americans do generally feel themselves to be in economic bother and Donald Trump is hoping that voters will decide they were better off under his presidency than they are now.
If one looks to the admittedly old-fashioned unit of the letter to the editor as a means of gauging the “temperature”, as Siobhán Brett has for the past 24 months as the opinion editor of a local newspaper in New England, Americans are at sea.
Gaps and inconsistencies in company records have complicated the liquidation of Doonbeg Holdings, the former owner of the five-star golf resort now controlled by Donald Trump.
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