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The most famous passage of the Coke-Pepsi duel was in the 1980s when Pepsi decided to go after Coke’s dominant market position via the so-called Pepsi Challenge. irishtimes.com/business/econ…

How the Cola Wars eventually ran out of fizz

For sheer intensity, Coke’s rivalry with Pepsi is almost unparalled in US corporate history

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How Brexit killed Frexit irishtimes.com/business/econ…

How Brexit killed Frexit

The UK’s messy, ill-thought out exit from the EU has effectively killed off leave campaigns in other member states

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Do Ireland’s top earners pay too much tax? irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Do Ireland’s top earners pay too much tax?

Department of Finance considers whether State’s tax system is in fact too progressive and therefore uncompetitive

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How the rise and fall of Blackberry serves as a warning to Ireland irishtimes.com/business/econ…

How the rise and fall of Blackberry serves as a warning to Ireland

It used to be the coolest gadget around, the preserve of high-flying execs, accounting for a fifth of all smartphone sales, now it’s a mere footnote in tech history

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The rise and fall of ESG: from noble ambition to corporate tokenism irishtimes.com/business/econ…

From noble ambition to corporate tokenism: the rise and fall of ESG

How does electric carmaker Telsa have a lower ESG score than US oil major Exxon, a company that spent decades trying suppress information about climate change?

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We pay German prices on Bulgarian wages: Varoufakis on the Greek economy irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Ireland should have told ECB to ‘bugger off’ during bailout talks, Varoufakis says

Greek economist believes Ireland was bullied into bailout, Greeks pay German prices on Bulgarian wages and global economy has moved into technofeudalism

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Dublin 8′s long wait for a playing pitch goes on irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Dublin 8′s long wait for a playing pitch goes on

The Marrowbone Lane depot site has been derelict for more than a decade as the arguments about what should go there go back and forth

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Getting a taxi, buying a coffee or dining out in Dublin are services that are now – in the main – supplied by immigrant labour irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Eoin Burke-Kennedy: Immigrants and the economic blame game

Getting a taxi, buying a coffee or dining out in Dublin are services that are now - in the main - supplied by immigrant labour

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Home ownership rates among 25-39-year-olds, once considered a prime homeowning age, dwindles to just 7 per cents irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Why the Michael O’Leary of housing is calling for fundamental shift in homeownership in Ireland

Lack of housing is forcing young people to leave and the Government has a responsibility ‘to play a bigger role’, Michael Stanley says

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When will the Government call the next election? According to those in the know, they have three possible windows irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Government’s election dilemma: Go now while economy is healthy or wait until more homes are built?

Timing of the next election could be crucial in determining the outcome, and three options - June, after the October budget or early 2025 - are being mulled, say insiders

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Irish-Israeli relations, tetchy at the best of times, plumbs new depths irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Could Ireland’s dialled-up rhetoric against Israel trigger a corporate backlash?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has accused Tel Aviv of being ‘blinded by rage’ while Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney claims it is ‘behaving like a rogue state’

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The Government’s dialled-up rhetoric on Israel marks Dublin out as Tel Aviv’s chief critic within the EU irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Could Ireland’s dialled-up rhetoric against Israel trigger a corporate backlash?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has accused Tel Aviv of being ‘blinded by rage’ while Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney claims it is ‘behaving like a rogue state’

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Sinn Fein’s slide in the polls: it’s the economy, stupid or is it? irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Sinn Fein’s slide in the polls: it’s the economy, stupid or is it?

The gap between Sinn Féin and the other two big parties has narrowed decisively in recent months. What’s driving it?

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DUP’s spectacular Brexit own goal delivers nationalist First Minister irishtimes.com/business/econ…

DUP’s spectacular Brexit own goal delivers nationalist First Minister

How did the chief defenders of unionism support a process that diminished the North’s constitutional status within the UK?

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Scaramucci’s late-night Davos parties irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Scaramucci’s raucous late-night parties do nothing to help Davos’s image as meeting of decadent...

Wall Street financier famed for throwing the most raucous late-night bashes at annual event in Swiss Alps

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For most of the 20th century, the independence dividend accruing to the Republic from being outside the UK was political rather than economic…this has changed entirely irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Why hasn’t peace given Northern Ireland an economic lift?

The Republic took a long time to benefit economically from independence, while the North has yet to benefit economically from the peace process

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Why Britain’s Tories are facing electoral wipeout irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Britain’s Tories facing end of days as electoral wipeout looms

Party hopes to resurrect fortunes by bringing former PM David Cameron back but its policy positions are alienating younger voters

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The strange and unpredictable calculus of Donald Trump irishtimes.com/business/econ…

A second Trump presidency and the divisive politics of immigration

Former president’s careful manipulation of grievances related to globalisation and mass immigration has put him ahead of Biden in five of six key swing states

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The increasingly vague, too-far-into-the-future pledges have allowed energy companies a last-minute, and in many cases a completely dubious, conversion to the climate cause. irishtimes.com/business/econ…

First we had climate denial, now we have the great net-zero con

Seventy-five of the world’s largest 112 fossil fuel companies have committed to reaching net zero but most are continuing to invest in climate-damaging projects

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Prigozhin’s short-lived mutiny was the first clear sign of the potential chaos rippling under the surface - Putin’s macho personality cult appeared to crumble in an instant irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Should we be preparing for Russia’s collapse and the global economic fallout that would follow?

Prigozhin’s short-lived mutiny was the first clear sign of the potential chaos rippling under the surface as a result of the country’s botched military campaign in Ukraine

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