Among the most prevalent of the public misunderstandings here in the US is the notion that a tariff is generally a fee levied on somebody else. Few seem to realise that they will be the ones bearing the cost.
This week has seen the US set the European agenda, giving its Nato allies a choice between a real war or a trade war.
The Paris AI Action Summit saw lots of talk but the words of one JD Vance are all anyone’s thinking about. For better or worse.
The billion-euro Irish advertising industry keeps growing. While online giants now dwarf legacy media, many domestic broadcasters and publishers continue to grow ad revenue – their relative slice of the pie is just smaller.
A referendum on Ireland fully joining the EU’s Unified Patent Court was pulled last year. The new coalition has made no commitment to rescheduling the vote.
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 Irish financial system has so far paid Cerberus €1 billion to make €10 billion of bad debt go away, plus another comparable amount to the global banks that have backed the US vulture fund. Was it a price worth paying?
Marianne Faithfull lived in extremes from golden girl to bag lady. But she was the great survivor, of drugs, the 1960s, and the Rolling Stones.
The last Cold War ended in 1990. Ireland no longer is the irrelevant backwater it was then. Greater focus and resources on defending the State, its people and its economy should reflect its new dangerous environment.
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