According to property website Daft.ie, Ireland is seeing an “unprecedented” lack of houses for sale online, with average prices increasingly sharply since last year. According to the Irish House Price Report for Q1 in 2022, nationally average house prices rose 8.4% nationally since last March, partially due to inflation. While Covid-19 initially reduced house prices, […]
The Financial Times has an interesting piece this week by Ruchir Sharma on the now-familiar theme of how Covid has made the world’s most wealthy people even wealthier. Sharma has spent two decades tracking the fortunes of billionaires, concerned that rising inequality would lead to political instability. He argues that the colossal $9tn – that’s 9 […]