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Vincent Boland: Trump’s Voodoo economics could easily talk a recession into being

US President’s America is on a different planet, and mumbo jumbo is its official language

16.03.2025 9

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Vincent Boland: Northvolt’s batteries have finally run dead

Despite its failure, there are other European battery companies that may yet prove more robust and able to challenge China

16.03.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: Epochal shift in Germany’s role marks turning point for Europe

The incoming chancellor’s economic plan is good news for the Ireland and the eurozone, and the goal of independence from the US is likely to be shared

09.03.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Tipping point could be in sight for Japan’s 7-Eleven chain

The Canadian retail group Alimentation Couche-Tard should know soon enough whether its $47 billion offer for the Japanese retailer will fly

02.03.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: As Trump becomes an adversary, Europe is entering its post-America age

Trump’s first month in office has presented a risk for America, a tragedy for Ukraine, a challenge for Europe, an opportunity for China, and a gift...

23.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: How dumb do you have to be to invest in a memecoin?

Political controversies will do nothing for the credibility of the cryptocurrency world

20.02.2025 6

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Vincent Boland: USA Inc risks becoming an accessory to Trump’s wanton destruction

Instead of bowing down, the US financial titans need to stand up to the new administration’s assault on the values of corporate America

16.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Brave Ukraine cannot be betrayed now, having fought with uncommon courage against brutal invader in Putin

It is naive in the extreme to believe that Putin’s concept of peace bears any relation to that of Zelensky – and perhaps even to that of Trump

16.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Breaking up of Honeywell may not be the solution required to revive ailing conglomerate

By the end of next year Honeywell will become three separate companies – aerospace, automation, and advanced materials

09.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Trump is turning America in to the friend from hell

EU’s response to Trump must be unified, coherent and consistent, and Ireland must be fully invested in it

09.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Can yet another strategic review revive the fortunes of Deutsche Bank?

Some momentous decisions may have to be taken if the German bank is to have any prospect of thriving

02.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Ignore TikTok: Trump’s real tech danger lies closer to home

Silicon Valley is on the way to becoming a tool of the right wing oligarchy-party-state over which Trump presides

26.01.2025 20

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Vincent Boland: After 15 years of economic stagnation, the UK is running out of time to turn its fortunes around

The UK economy is 4 per cent smaller since Brexit, while exports and imports are forecast to be 15 per cent lower in the long run

26.01.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: State is now the biggest enemy of progress

The answer is not necessarily to create a bigger Irish state – what is needed instead, and urgently, is a better one

20.01.2025 7

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Vincent Boland: State is now the biggest enemy of progress

The answer is not necessarily to create a bigger Irish state – what is needed instead, and urgently, is a better one

19.01.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: Shorting the market, exposing the truth - Hindenburg signs off

This underdog may be moving on, but frauds, scams and Ponzi schemes are going nowhere

18.01.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Trudeau ended up being too liberal as he exits stage left

Obituaries of the departing Canadian prime minister were almost uniformly brutal, yet he leaves an honourable legacy

12.01.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Don’t succumb to pessimism peddled by the world’s richest people

2025 will be a difficult, but that does not mean it will be dystopic

05.01.2025 3

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Vincent Boland: We may have finally heard the last of Madoff’s ‘one big lie’

The final payments to investors of the notorious fraud have been made but the tragedy has claimed victims

04.01.2025 3

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Vincent Boland: The state should become a shareholder in Holyhead

Despite its importance to Ireland, Holyhead has always been the poor relation among Britain’s main ports - that needs to change

29.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Nissan-Honda merger shows new signs of life in corporate Japan

The auto industry is primed for a shake up after a stinker of a year, the Japanese move should be heralded

29.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Irish government must buy stake in Holyhead to avert future trade logjams

Abolishing Dublin Airport passenger cap and securing a stake in Welsh port should be high on the agenda

24.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Israel’s closure of Dublin embassy poses major questions for Irish diplomacy

Perhaps we in Ireland could drop the bogus historical parallels and add a bit more nuance and awareness to our approach to Israel and Palestine

22.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Powell’s passive-aggressive rate cut leaves markets guessing

The Fed Funds rate, as the benchmark is known, now stands at a range of 4.25 to 4.5 per cent, which is the level it was at two years ago

22.12.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Syria is a 21st century tragedy like no other and its worst days may still lie ahead

Possible silver lining in that the toppling of the dictator was done by Syrians themselves, unlike in Iraq, where Saddam was toppled by the West

15.12.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Democracy always requires protection, as events in South Korea show

An act of defiance and courage by the country’s lawmakers halted the president’s outrageous attempt to introduce martial law

08.12.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: Trump’s scattergun tariff war is no way for leader of world’s most powerful nation to act

Trump is unpredictable and unfocused, governed by obsessions and whims, and advised by so many competing voices that anything is possible

01.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Northvolt’s bankruptcy signals trouble for Europe’s green transition

Company lacked the corporate structure, managerial heft and engineering expertise required to run a manufacturing operation of its increasingly...

01.12.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: How hubris ran headlong into nemesis at genetics firm 23andMe

Once valued at $6 billion, the firm founded by Anne Wojcicki has had a spectacular fall from grace

24.11.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: New Government must avoid telling pension funds where to put their – which is to say your – money

Local pension funds investing more in local companies and assets is not as straightforward as politicians think, whether in London or Dublin

24.11.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Italy's oldest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena sees light at the end of tunnel

Far from the chaos of 2007, Italian banking sector is surprisingly strong and innovative these days

17.11.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Trump eyeing up more disruptive and costly confrontation with China than ever seen before

President Xi Jinping believes the US is a declining force and China’s historical and cultural destiny will surpass it

17.11.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: The timing couldn’t be worse for Germany’s political crisis

Europe’s largest economy faces months of chaos following chancellor Olaf Scholz’s sacking of his finance minister

10.11.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: Don’t say you weren’t warned about Trump’s fascism – he told us himself

The Republican candidate is set to to pursue an economic agenda that will risk the world economy falling apart

06.11.2024 5

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Why Elon Musk is the most likely candidate to take reins of Trump’s Maga empire

If Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump on Tuesday, what happens to Trumpism, America First, and the Maga movement?

05.11.2024 2

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Musk the most likely candidate to take reins of the Maga empire

If Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump on Tuesday, what happens to Trumpism, America First, and the Maga movement?

03.11.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: Don’t say you weren’t warned about Trump’s fascism – he told us himself

The Republican candidate is set to to pursue an economic agenda that will risk the world economy falling apart

03.11.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: Death of Fethullah Gülen a reminder of dark night for Turkey in 2016

Eight years later, the night and the event are still shrouded in conspiracies on all sides and his death will not change that

27.10.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: Ending of tax breaks for the rich could see bloated private equity sink or swim

Despite soaring stock markets, the trillion-dollar private equity industry is the beached whale of the financial markets

27.10.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: Origins of next debt crisis lies in countries on which heaviest burden falls

The IMF calculates the debt owed by governments will reach $100 trillion or 93 per cent of global GDP by the end of the year but the level of debt...

20.10.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Richard Conroy was one of Ireland’s most indefatigable business leaders

He survived a succession of boardroom bust-ups and clashes with shareholders, including a particularly bitter one with oil explorer Tony O’Reilly

17.10.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: Richard Conroy was one of Ireland’s most indefatigable business leaders

He survived a succession of boardroom bust-ups and clashes with shareholders, including a particularly bitter one with oil explorer Tony O’Reilly

17.10.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: For Google, it’s been a week of Nobel prizes and corporate challenges

Good news from Oslo and bad news from Washington summed up the internet giant’s week

15.10.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: Pfizer’s activist investor adds insult to injury for an ailing pharma giant

Pfizer was riding high during the pandemic but has been overtaken by rivals including Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk whose weight loss drugs have left...

13.10.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: If war erupts between Israel and Iran, nobody can stop it

The United Nations is powerless, and neither Europe nor the Arab world has much influence in Jerusalem and Tehran

06.10.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: US unions are looking to have it both ways in presidential election

Teamsters’ failure to endorse one or the other candidate suggests O’Brien lacks the courage of his convictions.

06.10.2024 2

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Vincent Boland: Barely two months in office, Starmer and Labour are really struggling

Rachel Reeves, in particular, risks coming across as Mrs Scrooge, so downbeat and gloomy has she been about the state of the national finances

29.09.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: Intel is in trouble and it can do very little to change that

Leixlip-based tech giant’s stock price has fallen by half even though the Nasdaq market is at record levels

29.09.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: Fed rate cut example of how central banks left wrong-footed

Instead of hanging on their every word, it is time for investors to become a bit more sceptical about the view of Central Bankers

22.09.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: Embarrassing setbacks hamper Bank of London’s bid to crack staid British market

Set up in 2016 by Anthony Watson, the bank has endured a torrid time

22.09.2024 4

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