When companies focus on maximising returns for shareholders, when they buy back stock instead of investing in R&D, they benefit society too.
The private sector is also more experienced when it comes to innovation – such as faster and more efficient payment systems, and value-added services. It is not entirely clear that this role is best served by a central bank.
We've made a promising start to the world of remote work, but there's a long way to go yet. Here are Leo Varadkar and Gareth Lambe's views on five of the biggest issues.
Fionn Davenport takes a journey round the golf tournament that means more than all the others and why so many- including a Holocaust survivor - believed it represented everything that is democratic about sport.
There have been many quiet heroes on the way to peace on this island. A driver called Brian O'Driscoll was one. Now Ireland needs diplomats to bring commonsense.
As yet another international meeting opens to try and hammer out a deal on multinational taxation, high-tech US giants continue to boost Ireland’s corporation tax take. How would this change under proposed new rules?
At a recent Tax Appeals Commission hearing, a taxpayer successfully argued that the bank he had borrowed from should be made pay his €1.6m capital gains tax bill. So what happened and how did the taxpayer win?
ESG investing is making the world a better place. But the claim that ESG is good for returns is fundamentally dishonest.
By moving the average maturity of our debt from 11 years into the distant future, we can choose to remove the sword of Damocles of what the ECB might or might not do in the future.
The government is relying more and more heavily on rent controls to deal with the housing crisis. Tenants and would-be tenants should be worried. This is why.
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