The cost-of-living crisis is set against the backdrop of major economic uncertainty. At exactly the same time that companies are seeking to curb costs, staff are dealing with bigger bills and lower purchasing power.
The best managers understand that a vision is worthless without standards. Sometimes it is necessary to be pragmatic about the vision until a solid foundation of standards have been met or, at least, grasped.
Income tax competition is the new corporation tax. And, as the state grows ever more reliant upon income tax, the companies paying the most of it want it to be reduced. What happens next?
Simply put: We have never had more jobs, we have never been paid more, and we are all, somehow, the poorer for it. Employers in some sectors are reaping huge profits, but others are struggling.
There's a danger that, in the rush to alleviate households this winter, we muck up the energy market. We should tread carefully.
The government will now shutter the IBRC Commission rather than make it trawl through 37 other deals. It raises a question of why Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan made the curious and unexplained decision to extend its remit beyond Siteserv in the first place.
Like its predecessors, any new agreement on the North must be built on our complex reality. Above all, the dangerous folly of the binary must be blunted.
While some of the initial allegations were determined to be unfounded, the Commission’s probe into the sale of Siteserv still painted a damning portrait of elements within Irish corporate culture.
Mikhail Gorbachev's death and funeral served to illustrate the differing perceptions of the last leader of the Soviet Union. His biographer William Taubman talks about Gorbachev's legacy, what he could have done differently and getting to know the man who helped end the Cold War.
Investors seeking to make money from this would want to be looking very far upstream in the energy production process. And they'd want to have gotten their bets in very early.
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