The political system wants and needs things done now to satisfy the media and maintain its legitimacy with the public. The administrative system needs things to be implementable and built out over a longer time horizon.
For Nvidia to be worth $1 trillion, some amazing things must be true.
So far in this series I’ve outlined the things that the government needs to do. But in reality the consequences of a rapidly changing world and a slow-to-adjust economy will fall onto individual shoulders. Yours and mine.
Awash with windfall corporate tax receipts, finance minister Michael McGrath recently presented a “scoping paper” on a future sovereign wealth fund to cabinet. From offshore markets to management fees, here are some suggestions for how it should operate.
The series also highlights, in highly emotional terms, the distance between the world of ideals and the reality of administrative structures and processes – and how deadly this distance may be for those excluded.
The GAA reminded its members this week that children under the age of 12 must not be involved in competitive games. The move has sparked a divisive debate across all sports over what is best for youngsters with stars in their eyes.
Fresh from triumphant local elections in the north, Sinn Féin's long march towards full-on power and responsibility is nearly complete. How the party negotiates this new territory will have consequences, writes Tommie Gorman.
The Digicel saga did not end with the deal, last March, between Denis O'Brien and the creditors. Amid a complex restructuring negotiation and unpaid creditors, ratings agency Fitch has again downgraded Digicel's debt.
The TV industry had a good thing going – until it threw it all away in an effort to beat Netflix.
The EU's draft AI bill risks cutting Europe off from the most important technology of the next ten years.
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