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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

European Central Bank: German word ‘schuld' can mean either 'debt' or 'guilt'

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Emmanuel Macron, French president, with Mario Draghi, ECB president Brussels, June 21, 2019 The German word ‘schuld' can mean either ...
Friday, June 21, 2019

2021 Post: Irish standard of living at 13th in EU27 and 19th among rich OECD countries

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This map has the 2020 data Among the 31 advanced (defined by the International Monetary Fund: IMF1) / rich countries of the 38 member Organ...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

The poor state of entrepreneurship in Ireland

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“Ireland is ranked among the most entrepreneurial countries in the world with increasing opportunities for budding MBA entrepreneurs,” acco...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Is Irish public spending out of control?

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

From economic heyday of British Empire to EU and Brexit

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Boris Johnson , a possible prime minister of the United Kingdom, wrote in a column in the Daily Telegraph in May 2016:
Sunday, June 09, 2019

Germany's 2018 global goods trade with 237 countries/ territories

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Germany had merchandise goods trade with 237 countries and territories in 2018 encompassing every region of the world — with partners that ...
Monday, June 03, 2019

Minimum corporate tax rate to imperil Ireland's FDI model

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For decades Ireland felt assured that it would maintain the tax advantage that was first provided in 1956 to lure mainly American foreign d...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Ireland in top 10 for competitiveness in world in 2019 - Fact or Fiction?

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IMD, the Swiss business school , released its World Competitiveness Rankings for 2019 this week with Singapor e at the top of ratings of 6...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Ireland wants ‘modest’ global corporate tax reform

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OECD data published earlier this year showed show that corporate income tax remains a significant source of tax revenues for governments ac...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

New Cold War: Containing China is a dumb policy

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At current prices combined US-China GDPs of $21.3trn & $14.2trn is 41% of global GDP of $87trn in 2018. Using Purchasing Power Parities...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

The fiction in Irish Times Top 1000 2019 leading companies

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This week the Irish Times announced the publication of its ‘ Irish Times Top 1000 2019, the definitive guide to Ireland’s leading companies...
Saturday, May 04, 2019

Idiots reject compelling science of climate change

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I was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on a day in July 1995 when the noontime temperature rose to almost 50 degrees Celsius. Saudi Arabia had its ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Irish Government as alchemists in innovation game

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In the Middle Ages, alchemists searched for the philosopher’s stone to transmute or transform common metals to gold. However, despite fail...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Ireland's underperforming indigenous exporting sector

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Ireland has two economies: the foreign-owned exporting sector that has driven economic transformation and its underperforming indigenous co...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Irish median income at 13th in Europe, UK at 14th rank

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Irish median income in 2017, adjusted for price differences called PPS , was at 13th in Europe (EU28 + Switzerland [2016], Norway and Icel...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

The Blame Game and its Irish connections

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  Google Books Ngram Viewer:  1950-2019 Last month the Financial Times headlined a report ‘ The British begin the Brexit blame game: PM a...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Few Irish firms in FT 1000 & Inc. 5000 Europe lists of fastest-growing companies

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The FT’s 2019 annual list of the top 1,000 of Europe’s fastest-growing companies , was published by the Financial Times in March and this w...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Time for Internet change 30 years after first website

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The revenues of the top 5 US tech firms in 2018 exceeded the IMF's 2018 forecast for the gross domestic product (GDP) of Switzerland — ...
Friday, March 22, 2019

European Globalization 500 years ago: Girolamo Savonarola; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Niccolò Machiavelli

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This year is the 500 th anniversary of the death in France of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) , the multi-talented artist of the Italian Ren...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Ireland’s Faustian Bargain with hyper- globalization

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Hyper- globalization, boosted by the digital revolution and mobility of capital in recent decades, has enabled a small number of global fi...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Paddy Agnew in Irish Times’ gig economy for 31 years

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Sunday Times - Ireland The Irish Times newspaper is involved in an international labour dispute with Paddy Agnew , an Irishman, who worked...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Top Swiss bank says tax evasion not crime in Switzerland after huge French fine

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Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality Annette Alstadsæter (Norwegian University of Life...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Tale of Two Cities: Dublin ranked worst for traffic jams, best for expats

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Dublin, the Irish capital, has this week been ranked among the worst cities in the world (ex-Asia) for traffic jams while being one of the ...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Irish workers most productive in world or same as Italians?

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This week the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued data which showed that Ireland had the highest GDP (gros...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

2.5m people murdered in Latin America in 2000-2017

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Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on Earth and it accounts for roughly a third of global murders  even though it h...