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Any successful redevelopment of Dublin city must incorporate a tax scheme to coax that money out of the deposits and into ...
Why would Dante equate Adam, an everyday opportunistic counterfeiter, with Sinon, the man who betrayed Troy? It seems ...
The idea of local authorities raising pennies from tourists to fund Dublin’s crucial infrastructure – an idea the Government seems not keen on – prompts deeper questions about how we raise money in ...
In order to fix the supply side of the economy, the new government must, as a matter of urgency, sweep away bureaucratic, legislative and planning impediments which are constraining development. Land ...
The country with the most Nobel Prize-winners in economics is calculating “protectionism” as the amount of exports to the US minus the amount of imports divided by that amount of exports. For the EU, ...
The Programme for Government accepts that rising house prices are a given. Nowhere is the new Government talking about falling house prices over the foreseeable future. It seems to accept this as a ...
As befits a country at the crossroads of Europe, through which Napoleon, Charles X of Sweden, Hitler’s Wehrmacht and, of course, Stalin’s Red Army trampled, Vilnius is a city of ghosts. Before the ...
In tune with our always-on age, the coming American recession will be live-streamed on Instagram. Every small change in consumer confidence and business sentiment will be videoed, shared, commented on ...
William McKinley, the victorious Republican candidate, received contributions worth more than $16 million (about $600 million in today’s money). McKinley’s chief fundraiser, Mark Hanna, raised more ...
How do we do it? Well, rather than getting bogged down in Dáil rows about who gets the chance to showboat in the chamber, maybe a good place to start would be for our political class to reframe what ...