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Monday, July 30, 2007

Bank of Ireland's Wealth of the Nation Report 2007: Tough Times in Japan - the Wealthiest Nation on Earth

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Katsuaki Watanabe, President, Toyota Motor Corporation Bank of Ireland Private Banking published its annual Wealth of the Nation Report to...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Top Fund Manager Pours Scorn on the Grab-all Superearners at the top of the US Economic Pyramid

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Source: PIMCO Bonds An FT/Harris poll published on Monday shows that popular backlash against globalisation and the leaders of the world...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

Forty Years on from San Francisco's Summer of Love and Challenge to Conventional Prejudice in UK

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Forty years ago, it was the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the anthem of the hippie generation San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers i...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Profile in Courage: John McCain

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In 1954-55 John Fitzgerald Kennedy a freshman US Senator from Massachusetts, wrote a book profiling eight of his historical Senatorial colle...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Housing Affordability - The Contrast between Britain and Germany

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Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week promised that 3m more homes would be built in the UK by 2020. ­Surplus public-sector...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Planet John Gormley and Hypocrisy

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John Gormley, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley, the new Minister for the Environment is either disi...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

When "Depression" Sounded less Frightening than "Panic" or "Crisis"

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President Herbert Hoover in the Oval Office with Theodore Joslin, 1932 - US National Archives, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Muse...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Justin Timberlake, Paris Hilton and Maurice Hilleman

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Dr. Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005) Singer Justin Timberlake was in Dublin last week-end and attracted big crowds for two concerts. I had heard...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

Apple's iPod: Capturing Value in a Global Innovation System

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Trade statistics can mislead as much as inform - For every $300 iPod sold in the US, the politically volatile US trade deficit with China i...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The baddies "talking-down" the Irish economy

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Export Performance and Competitiveness of the Irish Economy Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletin 3 2005 - - - It is foreign-owned firm...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Irish Public Sector pay for Clerical Employees trumps counterparts in top Multinationals in Ireland

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The ESB plant at Lough Ree, County Longford. According to the CSO *, the pay levels of Clerical, Managerial and Industrial staff in the ...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Minister Martin's delusional "Asia Strategy"

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Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Michéal Martin on Tuesda...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary seeking to boost business amidst market slowdown but gets puck in eye on customer service

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Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday that the low-cost airlines average ticket prices will be lower this year and pr...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Ireland needs 3 more Government Ministers than France

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President Nicolas Sarkozy at the commemoration on Monday, June 18, 2007 of the war-time call by General Charles De Gaulle from London for th...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

The Greens drinking the soup

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Trevor Sargent Under pressure in 1973 from the White House Press Corps, including CBS News' Dan Rather, as the Watergate scandal engulf...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Golden Fleece: Ballsbridge, Property Shakedowns, Nimbies, Developers and Selfless Politicians

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The decision of members of Dublin County Council to reject a local area plan for Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, that provided for the building of hi...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Waning of China Effect will result in Higher Inflation and Interest Rates

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In October 2006, the world's biggest container ship, the Emma Maersk, owned by A.P. Moeller Maersk of Denamrk, docked for the first time...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Irish Corporate Tax Regime and Synthetic Indignation

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Peer Steinbrück, Germany's Finance Minister Luxembourg vetoed attempts on Tuesday to end its position as a low-tax haven for web retaile...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

John Waters as Rip Van Winkle

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Either the people or the media should resign, John Waters, who makes a handy living from his weekly column in the Irish Times, wrote last Mo...