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The state that mints the money that everyone wants has soft power. Soft power is the power of persuasion.In today’s context, consider the power the US dollar gives the United States. Oil, copper, ...
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 ...
This week two global reports underscored the extraordinary education revolution that has taken place in Ireland. We are now the most educated country on the planet, above Singapore and Switzerland ...
Average rents have hit all-time highs, especially in cities. Has the economy gone from hot to hotter? And what are we going to do about it? In the past couple of months the average new rent nationwide ...
Although it is particularly egregious, the canal episode isn‘t an isolated incident. GeoDirectory, the data company used by An Post, has estimated that 14,500 residential and commercial properties lie ...
The world tipped on its axis in those years between 1989 and 1994, and by the time South Africa beat New Zealand to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup the jig was up. Hastily, America scrambled for a new ...
Carney turned the Canadian election into a referendum on Trump. Canadians responded enthusiastically. Before Trump began dismissing Canada as an American state in waiting, the Liberal Party’s support ...
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 ...
The easiest (and possibly laziest) thing to do when faced with the US president is to condemn him and his administration as an unhinged rabble, inchoately making things up on the hoof. But that gets ...
American fears are spreading across the Atlantic. For example, in Ireland the Credit Union Consumer Sentiment Index plunged to 67.5 in March 2025 – a nine-month low and well under the long-term ...
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, ...
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