The FAI has endured an existential crisis and, like all sporting bodies, it is also dealing with the consequences of the coronavirus, but if the association is to emerge in a better place, it can't have a bookmaker as its main sponsor.
The historic Kerry Co-op is in advanced talks with the wider food group to regain control of its domestic agribusiness. The deal is a high-stakes bet for the farmers, and part of a final focus on high-tech ingredients for Kerry Group.
Ireland's growing population gives it an opportunity to do something ambitious: create dense, liveable cities as good as the best in Northern Europe and Japan.
Since the start of the pandemic, the US Federal debt has ballooned. To implement many of the new administration’s longer-term objectives, Congress will have to find trillions in new spending capacity. And they will have to do this against all political odds and market sentiment.
There is little chance that sufficient flexibility or capacity will materialise to soften the blow of the new EU-UK trade relationship. Much like Covid-19 lockdowns, public policy is now to take the Brexit hit and compensate those most affected.
In truth, the decision to hedge or not is complicated. For most long-term investors, the best decision is arguably to accept their inability to forecast, while also accepting that hedging is a poor solution.
Google's employees -- today's car-makers -- are seeking unionisation. The gig economy is in full swing. The world of work post-Covid looks more atomised every day. If unions want to reinvent themselves, they need to find ways to increase associational power.
The largest impediment towards institutional investment in Bitcoin has been the lack of established custodians in this sector. This is now changing, and there is a grudging acceptance that cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
For the first time in many years, companies supported by Enterprise Ireland lost more jobs than they created in 2020. Beyond the pandemic effect, it is time for the state agency to reassess its priorities away from traditional food production and into riskier innovation areas – as well as the domestic economy.
The key message for investors is that the risk borne by equity investors in a bank is of a fundamentally different order than that borne in almost any other business.
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