As Kamala Harris prepares to face a climate-sceptic Donald Trump in the US, new green policies are emerging in the EU and other countries where this mammoth global electoral year is further advanced.
Victor Khosla’s Strategic Value Partners is buying Blanchardstown Centre because it thinks the market has bottomed out, and there is room for significant upside. But Khosla might also have just set a floor on the retail property market in Ireland.
Perhaps it is the Vibecession. Perhaps it is the agitated focus on inflation. The trouble is, Americans do generally feel themselves to be in economic bother and Donald Trump is hoping that voters will decide they were better off under his presidency than they are now.
Dylan McGrath has just shut two long-standing Dublin restaurants. Camile Thai founder Brody Sweeney warns of the danger new government-imposed costs pose to the industry.
Tasked with examining possible tweaks to CGT relief for small landlords, the Tax Strategy Group said it is best to bed in and wait for more data. No one wants a repeat of the furore over the latest landlord income tax break.
Looking at Donald Trump's first term in office will not tell you an awful lot about what we should expect a second time around. However, the tone of the recent Republican convention and the panellists speaking at it are illuminating for investors.
A constitutional right to housing could actually make things worse by giving the Government the opportunity to simply pay off those who make it to the Courts, rather than to make systemic fixes.
Paul McGlade, who died in recent days, was a consummate retailer with an instinct for knowing what to buy and how to sell it. His story, while relatively little known, is one of the all-time greats of modern Irish business.
Netflix discovered that when they let people go who were average or good at their roles, they were left with high performers. These high performers excelled in what was now, by default, a high-performance culture.
The success of the Irish athletes in Paris has been a tremendous fillip for the whole island. But for the OFI, an organisation that still carries a contingent liability on its balance sheet for the Rio debacle, it also shows what can be achieved in a short time.
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