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Europe is floundering and must modernise as extremists loom

Single market on which its economy is built needs a complete rethink if it is to compete with a booming US and a surging Asia

21.04.2024 10

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Modi’s dream of delivering a developed India at heart of next month’s elections

India is changing at extraordinary speed and has more billionaires than anywhere except the US and China

21.04.2024 7

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Vincent Boland: Fed’s hasty revision of interest rates is most dramatic shift in expectations in years

Demand for interest cuts in election year likely to see economy take centre stage in UK and US races

14.04.2024 9

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Vincent Boland: If AI does advance to outsmart us humans, we need to be ready

With the possible exception of inflation, AI is the number one factor driving investor sentiment in the stock market but regulatory demands are...

14.04.2024 9

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Vincent Boland: Brakes go on the move to the brave new electric car world

The revolution might not be going to plan, with a drop in EV sales worldwide raising questions about the shift to greener travel

07.04.2024 9

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Netanyahu’s barbaric army is out of control and is alienating all his allies

Israel is quickly losing any international sympathy and support it had after the Hamas terror attack on October 7

07.04.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Why is the US using an 134-year-old law to bring Apple to heel?

New regulatory probes have raised the prospect that the best of times may be over for Big Tech

31.03.2024 7

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Vincent Boland: If RTÉ and the BBC are to stay the same, then they have to change

Public service broadcasting is in financial crisis. Now is the time to consider what it is actually for

31.03.2024 7

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Vincent Boland: Bankers need to stop having hissy fits over regulation

Bankers are fighting back against the latest efforts to regulate them, but their special pleadings are becoming tiresome

24.03.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Surprise surprise, the billionaires are backing Donald Trump

The former – and possibly future – US president is attracting support from the monied classes

22.03.2024 8

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Vincent Boland: Yes the value of stock markets are soaring, yet IPOs are in steep decline

The market shrinkage is mostly a western, mainly European phenomenon, while markets in Asia continue to grow

17.03.2024 20

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Vincent Boland: A US ban of TikTok raises issues of principle and practicality and is antithetical to free speech

The US and the UK have over-reacted with these displays of performative pandering to political lobbies and snubbing of allies

17.03.2024 6

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Vincent Boland: Bitcoin rises from the dead ... and it stinks to high heaven

Crypto universe is shrouded in mystification, boosterism and investor credulousness

10.03.2024 8

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Vincent Boland: China’s journey to prosperity is stuck – and something has to give

Its economy recently kept the world ticking over but it has faced a series of downturns that mean a new path must be found

09.03.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: It is sad to say, but Hong Kong is so over it hurts – and it’s a loss to the world

From being the jewel of Asia, these days Hong Kong’s status as a world-leading financial centre is diminishing at an alarming rate

03.03.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Nvidia is the new Apple and its chief the new Steve Jobs, even down to dress sense

The tech company at the centre of the artificial intelligence revolution, has seen its value soar seven-fold to its level today of $2 trillion

01.03.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: After 34 years, Japan’s Nikkei has something to shout about at last

The wait is over for investors as stock market finally surpasses high last achieved in December 1989

25.02.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Putin is having a fantastic 2024, it can’t continue

Tide has turned in Russia’s favour on second anniversary of Ukraine invasion, Europe must now respond to help Ukraine prevail

24.02.2024 20

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Vincent Boland: Biden may be old, but Nato comments show Trump is unhinged

The world has gotten used to the deadbeat developer-turned-politician talking trash, but his comments last week still shocked

20.02.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Farmers are their own worst enemies but must not be ignored

As climate change accelerates and the green transition becomes more urgent and costly – farmers are at the coalface, whether they like it or not

11.02.2024 8

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Vincent Boland on Facebook at 20: It’s time to stop hating Mark Zuckerberg

The Meta founder has matured as a businessman and grown as an adult, but what investors love is the dividend

10.02.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: At X, Musk often acts like a jerk as he panders to crass cult instincts

He gets away with it because he is surrounded by acolytes and a supine board but that will not last forever

03.02.2024 8

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Vincent Boland: Rise of radical right afflicts ailing Germany in year of disenchantment

There are enough reasons for angst in Europe’s largest country but growing support for the AfD is the gravest threat facing it

28.01.2024 10

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China’s aggressive pursuit of its interests to the exclusion of everything else is self-defeating

The country’s rise to be one of the two superpowers is the most important development of the 21st century

21.01.2024 5

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UK Post Office scandal shows computers were more trusted than people

Whatever the eventual outcome, though, the affair of the UK Post Office and the Dodgy Computer System is a salutary, heartrending and profoundly...

13.01.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Alaska Airlines blowout will not topple Boeing, but it seriously needs to get its house in order

One of Boeing’s problems in the past two decades was that its engineers were no longer in charge

12.01.2024 7

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Vincent Boland: Why Apple’s mega writedown is a very Apple development

Apple’s shares tumbled 4 per cent after analysts at Barclays, an investment bank, took a look at the company and went ‘meh’

06.01.2024 6

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Why the year of elections in 2024 will matter so much to us all

There will be lots of drama and psychodrama in those contests from the US to Europe and here at home

29.12.2023 9

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Vincent Boland: Magnificent Seven fire America ahead in the battle against inflation

As the head of Fed tells investors the fight has been won, the concentration of value in a handful of tech giants is risky and problematic

24.12.2023 8

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Vincent Boland: US universities blew chance to set Israel record straight

Academia should be able to say uncomfortable things but on some issues, particularly antisemitic, absolute clarity is necessary

17.12.2023 9

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Vincent Boland: The rising enemy from within poses greatest threat to EU unity

EU leaders will meet in Brussels this week, where the agenda could hardly be more pressing nor the backdrop more gloomy

10.12.2023 9

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Vincent Boland: Britain is losing the argument, and its marbles, over the Parthenon Sculptures

The British government is absurdly over-invested in keeping the Elgin Marbles, and too ready to rely on colonial-era legislation to do so

03.12.2023 10

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Vincent Boland: Argentinians opt for another populist strong man as economy teeters yet again

Under the surface, Javier Milei, the TV personality who has just been elected president, looks alarmingly similar to the authoritarian Juan Perón

26.11.2023 6

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Vincent Boland: Global economy is not out of the woods until US stops snowballing deficit

There have been sighs of relief all round as Central Banks take the foot off the pedal of interest rate rises, but America is still on a scary...

19.11.2023 10

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Vincent Boland: The world cannot afford for US and China to be at loggerheads

The upcoming Apec summit presents an opportunity for Xi and Biden to approach relations with realism and sobriety

12.11.2023 10

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Vincent Boland: Starmer’s main obstacle to power is himself and his deeply divided party

How the Labour leader handles accusations of giving a free pass to the Israelis will be a vital test

05.11.2023 6

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Vincent Boland: Big Oil fights back against green energy movement

Chevron and Exxon’s $120bn megadeals were part of a massive pushback against moves towards clean energy, but only on one side of the Atlantic

29.10.2023 6

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Vincent Boland: Tusk’s election victory will herald a welcome return for Poland to the centre of Europe

No election in Europe in 2023 is more important than the one that just happened in Poland, where conservative Jarosław Kaczyński’s failure is good...

22.10.2023 6

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Vincent Boland: Waging war on citizens of Gaza will backfire

In its response to last weekend’s terrorist attack, the Israeli government must target Hamas rather than a civilian population of millions

13.10.2023 5

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Vincent Boland: Budget 2024 was like a message from another planet

What we saw on Tuesday is the latest evidence that Ireland remains an outlier on the world economic stage, as it has been for at least two decades

11.10.2023 10

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Vincent Boland: Most ominous axis of anti-Ukraine sentiment is in the US Republican Party

Extremist GOP rhetoric poses a bigger threat to western unity on the war than any rumblings in Europe

08.10.2023 9

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Vincent Boland: Claptrap that immigrants pose an existential threat to western way of life has to be challenged

As Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh, it’s time to reiterate that properly integrated and settled, immigrants are an economic and social benefit to...

01.10.2023 10

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Vincent Boland: Future of Dublin lies in the management of success

Modernity may be alien to the Irish bureaucratic and policy mindset, but we must embrace it if the capital is to fulfil its potential as a truly...

24.09.2023 10

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Putin’s potential deal with Kim bodes ill for Indo-Pacific and beyond

Both leaders are isolated and desperate, but the North Korean dictator has far more to gain

17.09.2023 10

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