Raw materials shortage.
Household savings also down.
Would society survive with only six shopping days per week?
One way of looking at that money is that it’s not savings at all: It’s a visual representation of the cost to the economy of covid.
There’s an inherent conflict awaiting the country between the imperatives of the tourism season – tourists pay more, remember – and the country’s reliance on hotels for refugee accommodation.
It was a speech for the hardcore Fine Gaeler, the kind of person who looks at the party’s record in Government and wonders why the rest of us seem so bloody lacking in gratitude.
Republicans are suddenly clear, if narrow, favourites, to win the US Senate as well as the House of Representatives.
De-industrialisation.
The takeaway is that neither the Government or its Budget will protect Ireland from hard times or from war, and its consequence’s.
Pieter Cleppe of the Brussels Report discusses the rise of European conservatism, the economic future of the EU, and who attacked the Nordstream pipeline.
We’re going to get a lot of spending pledges, this week. And because Irish politics is Irish politics, a lot of those pledges will be the same as each other.
Russia’s greatest strength, politically, was the notion that it could not be beaten. This weekend, its army was routed. That will change the political calculus considerably.