Harry Markowitz has been credited for everything from the invention of index funds (which save investors anywhere from $150-250 billion in fees per year) to the Global Financial Crisis (estimated total cost: more than $2,000 billion).
Young people need tailored help to get a business off the ground. This is why the demise of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition and the precarious position Young Enterprise NI now finds itself in is so disconcerting.
If we are asking individuals to manage trade-offs, and we are asking the Government with a big G to manage trade-offs, are we asking too much of our elected representatives to manage trade-offs?
The pandemic understandably squeezed the number of second-hand homes listed for sale. But why has the market not recovered since?
There is no sport that can compare to football when it has the excitement showcased last weekend. What has happened this year will shape how the competition unfolds next season.
Whether our medium- and long-term future is a shared island, a united Ireland or the current, disjointed, not-a-sum-of-its-parts Ireland, usage of the stock of hospital sites is a problem in need of serious attention, especially in border counties.
The problem lies between the allocation of funding - which requires a pen - and delivery- which requires regulatory processes, committees, project implementation planning, and actually building or developing something.
A combination of potentially plunging oil and gas prices, base effects and the lagged effects of monetary tightening are set to reduce inflation pressures meaningfully in the months ahead.
The eurozone has a chance to break out of its low growth rut and heat up its labour market. It is important it succeeds because a hot labour market benefits the poorest most of all.
Trying to beat the market is often a fool’s errand. AI can help sift through existing data like never before, but the real challenge remains to distinguish between signal and noise.
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