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...business-friendly ideas are put into question by much contemporary economic reality. Current trends show that, if left to their devices, big corporations will generally seek to depress wages for the sake of short term profit even if this leads to long term problems of inequality and poverty. However, are the conventional social democratic solutions of the past up to the...

...business and financial services. It follows that a thorough underlying narrative is an imperative in trying to understand the economic implications of this global brand possibly retreating from Ireland following Brexit. A similar argument can be made for the crucial Agri-food sector, whose production crisscrosses the Irish border and the rest of the UK. Brexit appears to...

...businesses out of their money. A typical scheme involves a boiler room approaching a company and offering to raise capital by selling the company’s shares to investors. These shares are then sold to private investors at anything up to 100% above the price agreed with the company. Once the shares are sold the boiler room takes a fee from the company for organising the...

...businesses but all those who help facilitate tax noncompliance. Pat McConnell describes these efforts in his article If you want to crack down on tax avoidance, go after the banks in The Conversation. Others have advocated for a more global solution. Whereas recognising that tax avoidance is technically legal, they point out that it is the poor who most suffer from its...