A full national debate on what we might call “net zero” is long overdue
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“Choosing to be a discreetly parasitic fluke is one thing, but quite another for the fluke to perform a Michael Flatley-type liver-dance in public, effectively taunting the Americans over their stupidity.”
Help families instead
Readers who observe these things will also perhaps note the grovelling being done by the Irish Government towards the new Trump administration
While the EU’s CBAM is presented as a solution to climate change, it risks creating more problems than it solves, affecting Europe’s competitiveness and businesses, as well as impacting developing countries.
While the snobbish hostilities of Taoisigh Enda Kenny and Leo Varadkar towards the first Trump Administration did much for their egos, it did little good for Ireland as a whole.
The US is choosing growth. We’re choosing to save the planet. Our policies don’t work in this framework.
This commentary is an update and review of a commentary that we published in December 2023. The updated charts are once again very useful. Gold bugs such as myself consider Gold to be money. And yet the primary way in which we measure its worth is in fiat currency – mainly Dollars. However, its purchasing […]
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There is at least one candidate on every ballot paper who would have joined the chorus of the questioning over the past five years, rather than the legions of consensus. Those candidates should be the ones you support, in our estimation.
Paschal Donohoe defends Fine Gael’s tens of billions in increased State spending.