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Cliff Taylor: No point handing a €200 energy credit to someone who wants to buy a luxury EV

This will be the Coalition’s most politically difficult budget. The Covid-19 budgets were the most dramatic and risky – vast sums were being...

16.09.2023 10

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A branch just fell off Ireland’s magic money tree. Should we be worried?

Be careful what you believe. A month of budget spin lies ahead. And this year it will be worse than ever as the political system tries to come to...

09.09.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: Who are the stay-at-home generation and how can their lives be made better?

Let’s take a look behind the headline census figures published this week by the Central Statistics Office, showing 500,000 Irish adults living with...

02.09.2023 10

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Ironman’s business model: A $730m company that targets high-earning triathletes

Helping you to live your best life is big business now. We are living in what has been called the “experience economy”, where we are being sold...

27.08.2023 20

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Cliff Taylor: Understanding the two sums of money that were Ryan Tubridy’s downfall

The curious tale of two sums of money – €120,000 and €150,000 – dominated the week. These are the amounts by which Ryan Tubridy’s pay was...

19.08.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: Sinn Féin isn’t in government, but it is setting the economic agenda

The playbook in response to the interlinked cost-of-living and housing crises is now predictable. Sinn Féin calls for something, the Government...

11.08.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: Is the Irish tech sector really facing a crisis?

Over the years, the Irish economy has tended to be either up or down. Booming or crashing. And so it is understandable that we focus on the dangers of...

05.08.2023 8

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Cliff Taylor: The generational divide in the Irish housing market is getting wider

It is all too easy to get caught up in the short-term news in the housing market – the just-published house price figures, the European Central...

29.07.2023 7

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Cliff Taylor: Why do big infrastructure projects always take so long in Ireland?

Twenty years. That is the length of time it takes to plan and build a new rail line in Ireland, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan observed this week....

22.07.2023 6

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Ireland’s spare billions have sent expectations sky-high. There’s a risk no one ends up happy

Despite the billions sloshing around this is going to be a tricky budget for the Government. Expectations are high, not least because of promises from...

16.07.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: Government cannot stand back and see RTÉ hollowed out

There is something about State companies and their mix of often-confused mandates, politically appointed boards and ministerial meddling which always...

08.07.2023 6

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Nexus of big firms, advisers and IDA wields huge power over our economy

In 1990, when I was a couple of years in business journalism, I wrote a report on tax payments from multinationals in Ireland rising sharply. All my...

11.06.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: Inflation is going to fall faster than you think

In a week when motorists were queuing to save a few euro on a fill-up of petrol or diesel, and figures showed grocery prices up by over 16 per cent...

04.06.2023 10

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Will Fine Gael’s tax plan to favour its base of higher earners survive the white heat of budget negotiations?

A central job of politics is how to raise and spend money. Ireland’s rollercoaster economic history has made this contested territory. The legacy of...

28.05.2023 10

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Better future for the young should be priority for surplus, not lining pockets of well-off older voters

The risk that the big budget surpluses forecast over the next few years will be frittered away is real. Politicians are always tempted to spread money...

21.05.2023 9

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Cliff Taylor: Real risk we will blow our big budget surpluses on wrong things

The risk that the big budget surpluses forecast over the next few years will be frittered away is real. Politicians are always tempted to spread money...

20.05.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: Ignore the political theatre. Prices are not coming down any time soon

The pressure on the Government to “do something” about high prices led to a particularly acute outbreak of performance politics. The retailers...

14.05.2023 30

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Cliff Taylor: Meet John and Mary, the 40-somethings caught in the mortgage squeeze

The squeezed middle. Generation X. The forty-somethings. The people who pay for everything. Call them what you want, but there is one group in the...

07.05.2023 30

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Cliff Taylor: Having ‘struck oil’, the Government’s problems start now

The Department of Finance has been talking down the health of the public finances in recent years, warning that it could all go wrong if corporation...

23.04.2023 20

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Cliff Taylor: Ireland has lots of cash, but must get better at spending it

Some things stop you dead in your tracks when you are scrolling online. This week on Twitter, Fine Gael launched a petition calling on energy...

02.04.2023 20

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This banking crisis is not over by a long shot - Europe is nervy and here’s why

This banking crisis is lingering on and this weekend officials across Europe will be nervy. Pressure on Deutsche Bank, the big German institution on...

24.03.2023 10

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Cliff Taylor: There are echoes now of the run-up to the 2008 crash

The past week or so has shown yet again that no one really knows anything.

19.03.2023 20

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Cliff Taylor: What kind of rental market do we want? Someone should ask the next generation

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11.03.2023 20

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Cliff Taylor: Why AIB didn’t treat ordinary borrowers the way it treated DJ Carey

We should not be even slightly surprised at the extent of debt writedowns offered by AIB – and by other banks – to highly indebted customers. The...

04.03.2023 40

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Digital euros could be just four years away – are we ready?

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23.02.2023 20

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Cliff Taylor: We are witnessing the first skirmishes in a new war for resources in Ireland

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20.02.2023 10

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