Nothing Seaping in: US trade advisory panel vital but opacity a concern 

Control over the economy and the markets has always been a lie that we’ve sold ourselves but the one thing we can control is how we adapt. Right now, we should be looking for the many opportunities in the burning trash can of the markets.

For Argentina, taking back the Falklands proved a bloody fiasco. For the UK, taking back control is proving an economic calamity. For Ireland, the loudening clamour for a Border Poll risks unknown upheaval to no practical benefit.

Before the publication of the catalogue Bungalow Bliss in 1971, the options for housing in rural Ireland consisted of inheritance, getting a place on the housing list and emigration. Fergal Lenehan talks to the author of a new book on the phenomenon.

In the short term, it might make sense for FBD to bid for Liberty Insurance’s Irish business. Longer term, however, the government needs to reimagine the Irish insurance sector.

Yes. We run over on costs. So does everyone else. Have we ever regretted building stuff? 

Now that the bubble has burst, we look back in astonishment at sums investors were willing to sink into risky, money-losing projects. But the logic of superstar firms says they were right to take the risk.

In July, the High Court ruled against a major offshore tax scheme involving offshore shelf companies, "artificial losses" and hundreds of wealthy investors. However, the decision is now being appealed by both sides as the battle over the offshore syndicate scheme escalates.

At the moment, this looks and feels like a traditional bear market rally – but if earnings data remains robust in non-tech sectors, then it may find a more sustainable footing.

A stock investor who eschews trading, never goes short, never uses leverage, and ignores noise can credibly hope to generate an average annual long-term return of seven per cent.

The start-up mythos is about small plucky teams taking on, and beating, big rich ones. Diego Piacentini shows that this mindset can be applied to government too.