President Joe Biden's latest economic stimulus proposals will likely aid economic recovery momentum in the US, but their cumulative $1.9 trillion price tag will create long-lasting and far-reaching trade-offs.
Things do come in threes and the government has three difficult choices: help those in urban, or help those in rural, areas? Help Andrew, or help Barbara? Help towns, or help cities?
Publicans will get €150 million or more in compensation from FBD. FBD will cover a portion of that and expects reinsurance to cover the rest. But why is so little known about FBD's reinsurance policy, and why has its estimate of its liability under that policy changed over time?
Investors need to start thinking differently about emerging markets. There are simply too many disparate economies and countries to label with a single phrase or acronym.
The greatest golfer the game has ever seen always faced impossible and unfair pressure from his sport to be what he was not.
Justice Richard Humphreys is alleged to have made baseless, damaging remarks about a senior counsel and a solicitor. The judge has previously been criticised by the Supreme Court for making humiliating and insulting comments about barristers that appeared before him.
Irish firms are behind the curve when it comes to the adoption of new tools relative to their European counterparts. So, we need to make the skills for digital adoption freely available and make the adoption of digital tools cheaper.
The rise of Bitcoin might ultimately be remembered as the canary in the mine of a modern money system under unbearable strain. A warning that the current experiment in unanchored money might yet collapse in anger, drama, and mistrust.
Why did Ulster Bank leave? Why are Irish interest rates the highest in Europe? Capital requirements are a big part of the answer. They're intended to make the system more stable. But how much is too much?
It has no employees and generates marginal revenues. But an Irish subsidiary of EMC has just booked a massive tax-free profit through the sale of intellectual property and inter-company debt flows. Sound familiar?
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