When it comes to business, one of the best descriptions of the Irish I have ever heard is that we prefer to be liked rather than feared. Affable, reasonably generous, good fun and chatty, most of the ...
The only people doing great business in Dublin’s north inner city these days are the fellas selling metal shopfront shutters. Dublin, particularly off the main streets, feels like the set of a ...
In the 1990s, when the Oslo peace process was in its incipient optimistic phase, I was the Israel economist for the large Swiss bank, UBS. International investment money, which had largely been absent ...
From the very beginning energy has been central to human existence. Economists will tell you that mastery of a new technology has always conferred a competitive advantage. In distant human history, ...