We haven't had serious inflation for almost 40 years. Biden's extraordinarily large stimulus package, in concert with a compliant Federal Reserve, might change that.
With €574bn held in SPVs, Ireland is at the centre of the global shadow banking industry. To understand what happens to that debt when normality returns – and the laws of economics are reinstated – you need to look to Copper Face Jacks.
A common business model in the financial industry is to funnel unsophisticated players towards sophisticated ones, and take a cut in the process.
Uncertainty over planning permission is a fact of life in our system, and it causes problems. In Europe, they do it differently.
The Government’s new micro-generation purchase scheme will be a nice bonus if you want to put solar panels on your roof, but the real revolution lies in its implications for power prices.
While the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow at Holloway Road platform, or the baseball batsman poised to swing beside the home plate face an unavoidable time constraint, investors enjoy a rare option to let time be their friend.
The 2021 Six Nations will be a defining tournament for Ireland and their head coach Andy Farrell. His rugby career has been characterised by an unending quest for knowledge but now Farrell must solve Ireland's selection dilemmas if he is to succeed.
Even at €292,000, Robert Watt is arguably good value to manage a €22bn budget in the Department of Health. But the real issue is the nature of the public sector, where performance and pay are not linked.
Absent a major policy push, a drop in employment in retail opens a world of precarious gig-economy work, long term joblessness, forced migration, and the attendant anger of communities easily weaponised by populists.
Ireland has become a global platform for multinationals to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions under the form of interest. The resumption of international tax talks following Joe Biden’s election will put this role into question.
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