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Take the biggest issue facing Ireland right now – the housing market. With data and the right model of what drives house ...
Immigration can drive a class wedge into an already class-sensitive society. For some of the working class, immigrants are ...
Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?
Any successful redevelopment of Dublin city must incorporate a tax scheme to coax that money out of the deposits and into ...
Economists, when talking about immigration, often blandly refer to “workers” or “talent”, but immigrants are people who expect services on a par with the citizens beside whom they are working in bars, ...
It’s not every day you find yourself in the Orthodox church where Alexander Pushkin’s great-grandfather was baptised. There is something calming about these dark, ornate and often windowless churches.
From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...
Last week Howard Lutnick, the head of Cantor Fitzgerald and more importantly the co-chair of Trump’s transition team, posted this on X: “It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus ...
Let’s talk about the message, who gets to tell the story, who constructs the narrative and who frames the debate. The reason I’m ending the year with this column on who tells the story is, maybe like ...