Biden Our Time For A Market Panic
“Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?” was the teaser line in a recruitment poster used by the British Army in 1915. Nowadays there are no great wa…
Charting The Uncharted Territory of Covid-19 Recovery
So, this might be the strangest financial quarter of all time. At one point, a third of the planet’s population was in pandemic lock-down plunging econ…
Taking Back Control In A Brexit Clown Car
Ooooohhh that was quick. Can it really be four years since the UK voted to leave the EU? Well, we are nearly there. In January the UK will leave the EU…
Ten Big Lessons From The House of WireCard(s)….
In 25 years of writing financial commentaries and research notes I have only received two abusive phone calls from ‘offended’ companies. The first was …
ESG Goes MEGA: Making Europe Good Again….
The current perceived wisdom of markets is that doing good helps financial performance. Doing good even has its own fancy financial acronym these days …
Back to Work – All is Very Good!
Well, that was quick. As Main Street tip-toes back to work, Mr. Market has voted with a loud and large V. That’s the ‘V shaped” recovery of financial c…
SME Survival: Three Numbers, Three Truths…
If it wasn’t so awful you would laugh. The Twitter Toddler is hiding in a bunker in the White House, with the lights off, as fires burn on Lafayette Sq…
Which Floor Will You Work On?
High profile developer Johnny Ronan had a tricky PR week with a Bewleys collapse and a questionably toned and timed holiday video. But…it could have be…
Value Is Dead, Long Live Value
Poor Joe Duffy. After the latest broadcast of the hit college love story, ‘Normal People’, the RTE Liveline radio host was moved to tweet, “I’m phoning…
Torn in the USA
The USA is very important to Ireland. It is our single most important trading partner, accounting for 31% of our total exports. However, the commercial…