Afghan journalist Emran Feroz explains why the simple narratives many in the West have tried to place on Afghanistan don't fit and how the real story is one of corruption and deceit and radicalisation.
The US Senator who lost out to Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential race has dropped a bombshell into the fraught federal budget debate: A proposed additional tax on the profits recorded by American multinationals globally, including in Ireland.
Data centres, the power plants of our digital economy, could consume 27% of Irish electricity by 2029. But they are also crucial to Ireland’s FDI-geared economy. As the climate agenda intensifies, the government will have to make a big policy call.
You might think banning commissions and enforcing higher standards would improve the quality of financial advice. But the results aren't clear, as the example of UK shows.
Only 0.0000001% of people are Great People, and when you find that Great Person, they are nearly 100% likely to achieve greatness. To figure out who they are, you need to understand the traits of a rower, a singer and an astronaut.
By placing a deep attachment to some of his stocks, a good friend has retained his portfolio when the conventional wisdom would be to sell. And it has served him well through three market downturns. Ahead of the next crash, we should ponder his experience.
Manchester United are the team best equipped to challenge an awesome Manchester City in a Premier League season that might be more normal but also more routine.
As the world entered a destructive pandemic, the Irish dairy multinational had a bigger challenge on its hands: the sports and health nutrition brands at the core of its success story were running out of steam. A shock treatment delivered during lockdowns appears to have worked.
Fiscally speaking, we live in times closer to wars. Money is the sinew connecting all emergencies to their solutions. Paradoxically, Covid-19 has prepared us for what we need to do with climate change.
Back in 1997, a stock market investor really did have a chance of finding a future Amazon. The thing that has changed between then and now is that there's much more private money sloshing around to fund even a capital-hungry and fast-growing business for many years.
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