Tara Shine reflects on her recent participation in the COP27 climate summit and pulls the threads connecting apparently remote UN negotiations with the real-life business environment, from tax to building obligations.
More than 400 people earning €80,000 or more responded to The Panel's most recent survey covering a wide variety of issues. Here is what we learned.
Rivalry within and between sporting codes has inhibited ground-sharing and taxpayers’ money has already been spent, or allocated, for stadium developments without persuasive plans for adequate utilisation. Or any credible plans at all.
The banker pay cap, which was partially lifted this week, was politically popular. But it was a bad idea. Bankers should be paid the going rate because limiting pay makes banks less valuable, less efficient, and no less likely to blow up.
Ireland may be about to lose out on a land grab. We are in the middle of an intellectual property gold rush. Will our failure to join the creation of a new patent system bring that gold rush to an end?
It's a good idea to buy stocks when the market is selling off. The same logic might even apply to bitcoin.
Control over the economy and the markets has always been a lie that we’ve sold ourselves but the one thing we can control is how we adapt. Right now, we should be looking for the many opportunities in the burning trash can of the markets.
For Argentina, taking back the Falklands proved a bloody fiasco. For the UK, taking back control is proving an economic calamity. For Ireland, the loudening clamour for a Border Poll risks unknown upheaval to no practical benefit.
Before the publication of the catalogue Bungalow Bliss in 1971, the options for housing in rural Ireland consisted of inheritance, getting a place on the housing list and emigration. Fergal Lenehan talks to the author of a new book on the phenomenon.
In the short term, it might make sense for FBD to bid for Liberty Insurance’s Irish business. Longer term, however, the government needs to reimagine the Irish insurance sector.
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