To understand our divided world, the rational assessment of economic well-being offers us little. The sometimes-great joy, but often-great damage wrought by emotion, comparison and narrative offers us much more.
Bootstrapping and doing everything yourself puts early-stage entrepreneurs in the seductive position of being in full control, but this comes at a growing cost over time.
As firms cut headcount and candidates outsource applications to AI, recruiters are grappling with a flood of irrelevant applications and a shrinking pool of genuine entry-level roles.
Gráinne Seoige’s testimony to the Oireachtas exposes a system that protects so-called “platforms” and perpetrators while leaving victims of AI-generated sexual abuse to fend for themselves.
From Trump’s muddled geography in Davos to a $1bn “Board of Peace” and ICE raids in Vacationland, another week of slippery language, hard power and harder truths.
This year I'll turn 40, so why I am still playing club football almost seven years after finishing with Dublin? Maybe it's because I'm trying to show my kids something
Wall Street uses roll-ups to buy growth. There’s a much more effective alternative, writes Andy Kessler, The Wall Street Journal.
Unlike the Celtic Tiger boom, today’s price rises are matched by rising rents. That tells a different story – one of chronic shortage, institutional rigidity and mounting social costs.
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For a country that built one global industry out of aircraft that rarely land here, the idea that its next significant leasing business might be in orbit should no longer feel out of this world.
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