Getting ready to contribute to Blockchain Ireland Week 2024 at Trinity Business School #BIW24

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Ireland needs to develop plan before multinational tax high comes down
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National quotas for the ECB?
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It's a bloody good time to be running for the local council as an independent, per the SBP/Red C poll: Independents top voting preferences in both the EU and local elections.

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Ireland needs to develop plan before multinational tax high comes down
⁦Cormac Lucey - Independent candidate, Blackrock⁩ ⁦The Sunday Times Ireland⁩ ⁦IDA Ireland⁩ ⁦Central Statistics Office Ireland⁩ thetimes.com/world/ireland-…

People before Profit are calling for price caps on essential foods such as milk & bread 🍞🥛

Could this tackle the cost-of-living crisis for struggling households?

#ListenBack People Before Profit Brid Smith TD & Cormac Lucey - Independent candidate, Blackrock Economics Columnist The Sunday Times Ireland

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Irish people are the victims of a disgraceful campaign of concealment by Government - Michael McDowell in today's @irishtimes michaelmcdowell.ie/irish-people-v…

#ComingUp from 7am with Shane & Jonathan Healy

Should there be price caps on groceries? Brid Smith TD Cormac Lucey - Independent candidate, Blackrock

Report on the economic impact housing asylum seekers in hotels has on towns @love_drogheda

Recognising the state of Palestine Gary Gannon TD

#NTBK

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I've lived through two financial crises - there's a third one brewing
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UK immigration fuels its housing crisis
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7 neuroscience facts that explain why your brain is sabotaging your success.

The real reason you're stuck:

Senior Revenue officials like other senior civil servants get gold plated, index linked pensions paid by the taxpayer. Pensions that no ordinary private person could ever buy and are worth far in excess of €2m. Complete hypocrisy.
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Talk about prescient! This is from Bertrand Russell, of all people, predicting the effects of the welfare state on male & female behavior. Christopher Caldwell found it for his brilliant Age of Entitlement.

Gotta say, as I sit here trying to compile charts for my weekly, it's an embarrassment of grim riches. Every series I look at is hitting extremes in ugliness. Can't remember this kinda deluge of bad data in a very LOOOONG time. The recession is here, my friends.

1/ Here is a thread on why recent record sales by the Chinese of US Treasuries might be one of the first signs of a major fiscal crisis in the US. There is a lot of confusion about how this would work so let's go through it step by step.

Vote for Cormac Lucey - Independent candidate, Blackrock …in the upcoming Local Elections for DunL Rathdown. Common sense, Accountability, Urgency and Value. This would be a major step you can take for the future. Vote for a change from Wokeness to Centre-Right. Bookmark the below blog.

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Be honest. You changed the title because you are total drips and didn’t have the courage to say no to a handful of mad Americans.

Christopher Hitchens on Israel and Zionism:

'I think Zionism is a stupid idea to begin with, it's a bad idea, a Messianic idea, a superstitious idea. And it guaranteed a quarrel with the Arabs because it meant we're going to take away from you what is most precious, your land.

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Failure to manage the mental health crisis is all too depressing
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The Tower of Babel - is society falling apart?
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