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IRISH ECONOMY

2019 Ireland and the Faustian Bargain with hyper-globalisation with role as mudguard for global companies that undermine globalisation
2019 Fact or Fiction: Irish workers most productive in world or same as Italians?
2019 Tale of Two Cities: Dublin ranked worst for traffic jams, best for expats
2018 Dublin City to run out of rezoned residential land in 4 years ? Part 3
2018 Irish jobs top 2007 bubble peak as rural villages in peril
2018 Average Irish housing size lowest of EU's rich countries
2018 Irish real house prices up 175% in 50 years, UK +405%, Germany -1%
2018 Airbnb under siege in Europe- accounts for 50%+ of Dublin rentals
2018 Irish broad rate of unemployment at 17% in March 2018; headline rate at 5.8%
Hectare of agricultural land costs ?24,000 in Ireland, ?6,000 in France

CORPORATION TAX

2018 Profits of US firms in Ireland at 800% of payroll costs
Ireland: Apple's foreign tax rate rises to 6% from 2% in 2012
Apple's principal Irish company became stateless for tax purposes from 2006
Bono struggling again as anti-poverty campaigner and tax avoider

INNOVATION

2019 Irish Government as alchemists in innovation game
2019 Few Irish firms in FT 1000 & Inc. 5000 Europe 2019 lists of fastest-growing companies
2018: Trinity College Dublin and its Innovation District dream
2018:Shortage of STEM graduates a myth in Europe and US
2018: Best countries in world to start or run a business in 2018
2018: When 600-year old French word entrepreneur replaced capitalist
Firms in Japan, US, France account for 85% of Top 100 innovators
Most global tech startup exits have no venture capital funding
2018: Economic Facts of Week June 2018: Tech giants killing young firms
Business dynamism/ employer firm startups in US secular decline
Computer coding is a trade that doesn't need college degree
Top 1% of entrepreneurial firms in 10 countries account for 40% of job creation among startups
Graphene: Discovery in UK commercial gains elsewhere?

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There are 25 rich countries in the OECD area and the economic, business and social indicators indicators show that Ireland is below average in several areas : Ireland's social, economic and business deficits in 2020

US alcohol prohibition did not almost kill off the Irish whiskey industry : Jameson Irish whiskey among top global brands; UK is biggest exporter

In 2017 Ireland supposedly exported ?17bn worth of Apple iPhones/ materials to China even though there were no shipments! : Ireland's record trade surplus of ?107 billion in 2018 ? an illusion?

Impressive data on inward and outward FDI from Ireland and to Ireland, from the United States Department of Commerce ? in the real world it's bullshit! : US FDI into Ireland and Irish investment in America ? facts and myths

American Political Tradition: American political and business corruption predated Trump presidency

Irish critics of Brexit and Ireland's economic disaster a decade ago: Irish property "Ponzi scheme" vs. Brexit delusion

Brexit has brought the Irish closer to EU but we remain in Anglo-Saxon orbit: Ireland's transactional membership of the European Union

High Irish consumer prices impact real earnings: Irish prices 27% above EU average, adjusted disposable income below

Public and private debt in Euro Area: Irish and Euro Area debt as recession fears rise

The world of low interest rates: Low interest rates, globalization, technological change and ageing

Ireland's ratio of population to exporting firm is high ? not good news for an exporting nation: Ireland's missing exporters

Interest rates set to remain at lowest in 5,000 years: Low interest rates, globalization, technological change and ageing

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?: Industrial Revolution in Ireland: Fortune and Misfortune

A no-deal Brexit could result in chaos 40 years after last Shakespearean tragedy: A 'winter of discontent' and Brexit

Fintan O'Toole, Brexit and Irish direct democracy: Debt default and leaving euro as false remedies to Irish economic crisis

Ireland's 2018 standard of living per capita: Below EU28 average and Italy's despite the latter's endemic stagnation

Poor state of entrepreneurship in Ireland: Low employer business startups and number of indigenous exporting firms

Is Irish public spending out of control? : German word ?schuld' can mean either 'debt' or 'guilt'

British Empire economic heyday, EU and Brexit: Since 1868 Britain's best economic performance has been during EEC/EU membership 1973-2018

Unreliable rankings with Apple as Ireland's biggest shell company!! : The fiction in Irish Times Top 1000 2019 leading companies

New Cold War: Containing China is a dumb policy

Key facts on climate change: Carbon, greenhouse effect, blaming the Sun & Ireland's poor emissions record

Ireland's innovation failures: Irish Government as alchemists in innovation game

Ireland's poor exporting sector: Ireland's underperforming indigenous exporting sector

Few Irish firms in FT 1000 & Inc. 5000 Europe lists of fastest-growing companies: 2019 listings show that Ireland is over-dependent on foreign-controlled firms

Time for Internet change 30 years after first website: Facebook chief in dramatic change requests governments and regulators to take control

European Globalization 500 years ago: Savonarola & Machiavelli: The first globalization in Europe had many benefits and severe consequences including colonialism

Globalisation & Massive Tax Avoidance: Ireland and the Faustian Bargain with hyper-globalisation undermining globalisation

Fact or Fiction: Irish workers most productive in world or same as Italians?

Tale of Two Cities: Dublin ranked worst for traffic jams, best for expats

Brexit plebiscite: David Cameron's flawed referendum of 2016

Compared with pre-Great Recession years, inflation-adjusted wages/ earnings are poor: Poor wage growth in rich world despite jobs recovery

Ireland's path from poorest country in Western Europe on Jan 1, 1973: Ireland's global social, economic, business rankings 2019

A seminal British insider's account of the Brexit farce: Brexit lessons for Britain from 30 months and 30 years

The Dutch Republic 1581-1795: First Modern Economy: Myths on tulips & most valuable firm in history

Free Trade and Poison: The human cost of the Western diet and European colonialism

Since 2000, the European Union has been one of the better performing economic units for growth in the Western World: EU GDP per capita outpaced UK and US in 2000-2018

The Divided States of America: Rupert Murdoch and the poisoning of American politics

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FINFACTS BLOG 2018

US vs China Tech War raising risk of Thucydides Trap? Part 1&2

Trinity College Dublin and its Innovation District dream

Shortage of STEM graduates a myth in Europe and US

Epic failure of global war on drugs under lead of US

Irish jobs top 2007 bubble peak as rural villages in peril

Pessimism & Ignorance: The world of common people has never been better

German import demand supports 5m jobs in European Union

No Utopia but are Nordic countries happiness superpowers?

Global city housing crisis and costly planning restrictions

Brexit and rickety foundations of the Irish economy

Irish Housing Crisis: It's time for radical solutions ? Part 1

Average Irish housing size lowest of EU's rich countries ? Part 2

Irish real house prices up 175% in 50 years, UK +405%, Germany -1%

Best countries in world to start or run a business in 2018

When 600-year old French word entrepreneur replaced capitalist

High growth firms as the Holy Grail or fool's gold?

Irish 2017 per capita standard of living again below Italy and EU-28 average

Irish broad rate of unemployment at 17% in March 2018; headline rate at 5.8%

150 years for poor Irish child/ descendants to earn national average income: 60 years in Denmark

Profits of US firms in Ireland at 800% of payroll costs

Ireland has very low employer firm startup rate- UK rate highest among advanced countries

Economic Facts of Week: Tech giants killing young firms

Trump makes racism respectable again in America

BREXIT

A seminal British insider's account of the Brexit farce: Brexit lessons for Britain from 30 months and 30 years

Brexit plebiscite designed by arrogant fool: David Cameron's flawed referendum of 2016

Similar economic structures fuel Ireland's high Brexit risk

Irish Tax Facts 2019/2020 Irish Revenue Tax Summary 2020
G-20 to support major corporate tax reform; 'Golden age' of no taxes over
Benchmarking income tax to attract Irish emigrants home - spin or substance?

Ireland's defence of Apple in EU state aid tax case is a sham

 
 

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The shameful stain of an Irish Civil War

 For the first time since the devastating defeat of Irish and Spanish forces by the English on January 3, 1602 at Kinsale on the coast of West Cork, representatives of the Gaelic tradition would have political power on most of the island of Ireland."


Idiots reject compelling science of climate change

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Epic failure of global war on drugs

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Italy has had one year (1926) when it achieved an annual budget surplus since 1910!

Italy: A century of annual budget deficits and high public debt


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Best countries in world to start or run a business in 2018

The patents are here, but they're not being linked into the domestic economy, not being levered up by domestic firms or married to domestic workers."

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Irish Innovation 2020 Strategy Report: Wish list based on distorted data

"In the long run we are all dead" - John Maynard Keynes

17% of Irish-born live overseas; 20% of Irish population foreign-born

US, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland have best higher education systems

UK government most open/ transparent in world; Ireland & Greece lowest ranking in Europe

Robots to help Europe's ageing economies to boost economic growth

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