Stock buybacks have been a significant, and growing feature of stock-markets in recent years. This accelerating capital extraction is by no means a necessarily positive development for stock investors.
The detail of rules yet to be fully thrashed out will determine whether it makes more financial sense for mid-tier multinationals like Etsy to keep their international HQ located in Ireland.
The Housing and Development Bill sets out to fix some of the most dysfunctional parts of the planning system. It was an opportunity to do much more.
The government have reached the halfway point but, as Leo Varadkar returns as Taoiseach, the prospect of one of the most significant elections in modern Irish history will dominate everything before too long.
The Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe will switch departments in the coming days. Stephen Kinsella has covered his entire tenure in the portfolio. In a major economic essay, he asks: How will Donohoe time in the department be remembered?
This week in Morocco people’s reaction was of complete and utter joy. Everywhere you went, people talked football, relishing what’s been achieved so far, writes Fintan Drury in Morocco.
Denis O'Brien owns the Beacon Hospital, while Larry Goodman controls the Blackrock Clinic. So, what was the investment rationale for two wealthy tycoons to invest in private healthcare?
Rail brings far less congestion than road transport, and we're right to push for it. But as 19th century Ireland shows, rail is no guarantee of growth.
The underground and self-contained world of the supply and demand of dinosaurs is full of more interesting and unique characters than Alice in Wonderland. And it is notoriously secretive, as I discovered on my journey into dinosauronomics.
There is a monstrous skills deficit in Irish technology. Fixing the problem will take more than vague aspiration on the part of the government.
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