Japan borrowed cheaply to invest in riskier assets. Now the cost of that strategy is rising, threatening the world’s second-largest bond market and sending a warning to heavily indebted governments across Europe.
Attending business events can seem daunting, or its benefits uncertain. The right approach is “just do it”.
Maria Edgeworth argued that education and economic opportunity could ameliorate poverty. She carried her beliefs into novels, writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth, The Wall Street Journal.
Ireland’s EU presidency hosted its AI Summit in Dublin this week, bringing together big-name speakers from the tech industry, but just who exactly was this all for?
A new book explores the sequence of political events that surrounded the October 1976 murder of Garda Michael Clerkin by a suspected rogue IRA faction. Michael was my cousin.
As energy prices continue to rise, the IMF is the latest forum to explore the lack of economic crisis in the face of repeated assaults. It will take a few more shocks to know if economies have become durably more resilient.
Organised under Enterprise Ireland, with an accelerator programme delivered by Dogpatch Labs, the Government's new roadmap to support founders is short on the specifics of how it will roll out its vision and investment.
The Meta boss becomes a viral meme after taking an awkward sip of the famed Irish stout, writes Jason Gay, The Wall Street Journal.
After three days beside my teenage son on a hospital trolley, I found myself questioning something I have spent decades considering in business: What happens when organisations become so focused on their processes that they lose sight of their purpose?
For 50 years, Ireland has tried to hold Dublin back. The result has not been a smaller capital, but a more sprawling one – with homes pushed further from jobs and transport.
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