Where we are going as a country depends on our choice of the structural features of our economy, on the dynamic path we choose to walk. We need to remember that many of these structural choices are still within our gift to make.
Retail legend Harry Gordon Selfridge coined the phrase “the customer is always right,” but Rena Maycock argues that some customers abuse this principle to such an extent that their business is not worth having.
The world still needs and therefore demands dollars. Notwithstanding the relative decline of the US economy, the dollar remains the QWERTY keyboard of the global monetary system.
Confused signals began to emerge about the future of the wall. For those of us reporting from the Czech/German border, there was nothing to do but to urgently start the six-hour drive to Berlin and to a profound moment of history.
The OECD is proposing that technology giants face a global minimum level of corporate taxation. What is it going to be, and what will it mean for Ireland’s fabled 12.5% rate?
The Ardagh Group has been a master of debt. Walking a fine line, it has borrowed and spent its way to the top of its industry. Now the time has come for Ardagh to de-lever, so its owners can have their long-awaited stock market payday.
The Lisbon conference may have become too frantic for startups to be noticed, yet despite doubts and introspection around the misuse of personal data, the event remains the epicentre of the tech world.
In the first article of a new series, Stephen Kinsella explores the state of Ireland, starting with the expectations people have for them and their children.
Nixon lives on. The bulge of credit, debt and danger has simply been shunted into the shadows of leveraged loans, junk bonds, emerging market debt and myriad other dim crevices.
The finance minister clearly believes that the persistent use of aggressive structures is impacting his ability to defend Ireland’s reputation. And given some of the wily tactics being deployed, it is hard to disagree.
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