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Wall Street uses roll-ups to buy growth. There’s a much more effective alternative, writes Andy Kessler, The Wall Street Journal.
Unlike the Celtic Tiger boom, today’s price rises are matched by rising rents. That tells a different story – one of chronic shortage, institutional rigidity and mounting social costs.
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For a country that built one global industry out of aircraft that rarely land here, the idea that its next significant leasing business might be in orbit should no longer feel out of this world.
The US no longer sees Europe as a part of the "collective West", but rather a declining vestige of past alliances that are to be replaced by the hegemony of the America First. To date, Europe has had no response.
Soaring asset prices have revived familiar warnings about debt, bubbles and central bank independence. Yet history shows that acting on well-worn fears can be as futile as building the Maginot Line.
As Brexit redraws the map, Stelios Haji-Ioannou has found a new courtroom of choice. From forex trading to holiday rentals — and now online fundraising — Ireland has become the frontline in his battle to retain control of the “easy” name.
The brainchild of X owner Elon Musk has made the news for stripping women of their clothes following a Hitler scandal mid-last year. Now, whole countries are talking about banning it.
As the US and China dominate a "might-is-right" world, Europe’s influence is shrinking. For a small, open economy like Ireland, strategic complacency is no longer an option.
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