Multinational tax news looks too good to be true – yet it is: Rewinding the week that was

The Court of Appeal recently reduced the defamation award to Aer Lingus pilot Captain Padraig Higgins. In my view, this case illustrates, more than any other, why juries should no longer have a role in defamation cases.

As the debate around flight restrictions continues on technical, legal, economical, and moral grounds, Stephen Kinsella takes a step back to look at the evidence available so far.

Bundled solutions taking the risk and the upfront cost out of switching to low-energy lighting, electric vehicles or solar panels for businesses are now needed for households. Industry and the new government have been tiptoeing around this model – it is time they take the plunge.

Sovereign wealth funds are normally associated with ultra-wealthy oil-exporting countries like Norway or Saudi Arabia. But as Switzerland has demonstrated, a central bank can sometimes print money out of thin air and use the proceeds to build a sovereign wealth fund. Could the eurozone pull off the same trick? And could we see an Irish sovereign wealth fund?

Budget tax measures are usually implemented in the Finance Act published, debated and enacted by both houses of the Oireachtas. When the government changes the rules on cancellation schemes, it did so within hours. Why did they do it and how did the scheme work?

Since the Provisional IRA's former head of intelligence was laid to rest, a debate has been raging over social distancing at his funeral. Yet there are many deeper, uncomfortable truths for the Republican movement – and secrets that Bobby Storey has taken to his grave.

Activist shareholders intent on taking over the Swiss-Irish food company’s board have strong candidates and a pessimistic reading of its accounts. Can they bring other investors along?

Leo Varadkar says the pandemic will cause ‘divisive’ inequality, yet the key policy problem here is not inequality but massive uncertainty. Inequality is a potential outcome of the government’s reaction. If it gets the reaction wrong, the result may be a lost generation of young households.

Mohnish Pabrai is fascinated by the power of compounding. And it has paid off, with the fund he founded in 1994 generating a stunning annualised investment return of over 20%.

The first behavioural and psychological studies into the impact of Covid-19 have begun to roll in, with metrics from savings accumulation to life satisfaction pointing to a more severe impact of the pandemic than cold financial data would suggest. This means that the response, too, should reach deeper and wider.