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TDs’ tasty investments

By ⋅ March 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

IF GILLIAN McKeith of Channel 4s’ You Are What You Eat programme were an investment guru rather than a nutritionist, what would she say about our TDs’ investment appetites? The Dáil Register of Members’ Interests is a bit like the big table McKeith piles high with food regularly eaten by her participants: chips, burgers, fish [...]

Bet on a bottoming dollar

By ⋅ March 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

EVERYTHING MUST go! Fifty per cent off. Sale, sale, sale. These slogans are familiar to the thousands of Irish shoppers who regularly swarm like bees to America’s great shopping cities – New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. It’s no wonder they travel Stateside. What’s better than watching greenbacks spill from your wallet to pay [...]

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