A major new report from the Fiscal Advisory Council has modelled the impact of climate change on our finances and it is not pretty. It is high time our politicians started explaining those costs to people as honestly as possible.
Market research has helped stock market investors navigate small-cap companies and avoid unprofitable ones - so-called zombies. Two years on from its IPO, the Irish medtech HealthBeacon is not in that category yet but the signs are worrying.
Oppenheimer and Barbie can teach us a lot about the state of the world we live in, who controls it, and how we’re just a bunch of consumers providing monthly recurring revenue to a tiny number of celebrities and private equity funds.
Thin women are more likely to earn more and be perceived as more competent and professional than their peers. And weight loss injections are about to further exacerbate this divide.
Prolonged high inflation is "incredibly socially divisive and economically very injurious," says Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe ahead of the budget. This theme threads through all others discussed in his interview with The Currency last week.
Unafraid of consequence, Laurence Fox has done something he never thought he would––apologise. But what are the implications of his “Who would shag that?” rant, and what do they tell us about the world in which we live today? Kate Demolder writes.
Clever marketing experts understand sport's power to change people's perceptions. Why not use the Ryder Cup to the planet's advantage?
The chance to be transformative for the nation is rare for any individual or group. Ministers for finance get a go at it every year. This may be the last budget that can be ambitious in structural terms for some time to come and it is too good a chance to waste.
For 10,000 years, cities have been labour markets. But that might be true any more.
FDI flows towards China have weakened dramatically over the last 12 months, and they have now ground to a complete halt. Is the huge fall in China-bound FDI a reflection of globalisation going into reverse, or corporate de-risking?
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