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Stephen Kinsella is an Irish economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick's Kemmy Business School… more

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It tries hard to be one
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Happy #Budget26 day to all who celebrate.
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More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/
Scatterplot showing a correlation between rates of chocolate consumption and rates of Nobel Laureates
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I currently have some weirdness on my personal site related to an apostrophe somewhere! But after 18 years I’m used to wrecking it periodically
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This was great fun. Learned a lot too!
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Gerry Arthurs @gerryarthurs.bsky.social · Aug 29
I was delighted to take part in a fascinating panel discussion on Global Horizons with @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @howardemma.bsky.social Barry Doyle, Mayor Greg Ballard & expertly chaired by Mark Redmond, as part of the Kennedy Summer School & Wexford Chamber & Wexford Council. Great engagement.
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I was delighted to take part in a fascinating panel discussion on Global Horizons with @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @howardemma.bsky.social Barry Doyle, Mayor Greg Ballard & expertly chaired by Mark Redmond, as part of the Kennedy Summer School & Wexford Chamber & Wexford Council. Great engagement.
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In United States of American, property steals you.
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The masts are often contracted as long term rentals of a farmer’s land. Same for telecom masts.
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Other totally unappreciated benefit: thanks to the rental income flow, farms are financially viable at smaller scales, retaining family-size operations and hence more rural communities.
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Bravo, @kjhealy.co. Bravo. And congrats!

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In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an inhumanly hot and intolerably humid day, I arrived at Newark Airport to live in the United States. I was twenty two years o...
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One very good gift for Christmas would be my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died, which is much, much funnier than that title makes it sound.

Here's a little taste, featuring the joys of Christmas with ten siblings.

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There’s a story my family tells around Christmas. As kids, that time of year was obviously pretty manic, but made more so by the fact each of us fancied ourselves as having prom inent careers in showbusiness. We all sang in choirs at one time or another, and some of us in several at the same time. I was less involved than most, yet even I sang in choirs for at least ten years, and the Christmas period was a time of constant shuttling between different masses or meetings or festive per formances. Most of us were then also in school shows, nativities or orchestra recitals, and in the run- up to Christmas, a few of us even did the fully produced commercial pantos in town. I somehow never made the cut for those things, which I found odd because my kind eyes and easy way with people reminded many of a young Marlon Brando. In any case, quite aside from the rigmarole of cooking and presents and the management of infant expectations that Christmas would demand from a single parent of eleven children, my father was rushed off his feet getting us to and from these various functions, and dealing with the preparations for overlapping performances. Walking through our house over Christmas was like a trip through the Warner Bros. lot in late- seventies Hollywood, only instead of showgirls and spacemen there would be assembled children dressed in their Sunday best, or as shepherds, or in the costume of some brutally crowbarred topical character favoured by school plays at the time. Many will remember my delighted turn as Reuben, the inexplicably French brother in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, not least for my having done the entire thing dressed as Eric Cantona. The main event One of those Christmassy mornings, my brother Shane was singing at three Masses in a row. That’s the 10, the 11 and the 12:15. After each, my dad would talk to a few fellow parishioners here and there, and pick up others of us who were at other Masses or concerts nearby. Owing to the comings and goings, headcounts got twisted, and on the drive back Shane turned round, surveyed the contents of the minibus and noticed that Dearbhaile was missing. She had been there in the chapel after the service, but had obviously stayed too long chatting to a friend and Daddy, understand ably frazzled and depleted, had taken off without realising she wasn’t on board. He turned tail and raced back to the church to pick her up. He was furious. ‘How did none of you notice she was missing?’ he fumed, and everyone felt chastened at their lack of aware ness, imagining her now crying on the steps of the church alone, or worse, in the company of scandalised and judgemental parishioners – or clergy – wringing their hands, apt to be tell ing tales very soon about the poor, rudderless O’Reilly clan, demented by grief, incapable even of counting themselves. When the bus finally reached Dearbhaile, however, she was smiling and happy, and neither in the company of some sour- faced scold among the congregation, nor alone. I was standing there, unmissed, beside her.
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Here is my look back at Irish tech in 2024 and what to expect in the new year

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NDRC, Hban, Leo Clancy, funding and more: Charlie Taylor’s year in tech - and what lies ahead
A year that started with great optimism turned somewhat sour as a series of challenges emerged in the second half of 2024
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Keynes famously said that in the long run we are all dead, but he may have been optimistic.
In my new book, I examine the new politics of emergency and defend the relation between democracy and the future, past & present. Out 1st Feb. 2024 with Profile Books
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Also correlated: AOC is not funded in the same way the other pols are. She’s not just an individual exemplar but an example of an alternative business model for a US Politician.
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The thing I love about these pieces is no one cares this lad has a Nobel prize. Like it is not even mentioned.
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Preach, J. H. Newman.
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I am rewatching Buffy with my 14 year old episode by episode. Tv today is so much better but Mr Giles as Punk Rock ‘ripper’ is something I’d be here for.
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Looking forward to learning a bit from @gavreilly.com
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Banger. Weirdos ftw.
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Pretty sure we’ve got the same
Ones!
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It’s so interesting how few acts really understand the assignment. Finland not one of them.

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Approximately 2 shipping containers of pennies- 140m dollars. Endless annoyance caused by paying for stuff in pennies- priceless.
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Yes—it is great fun but also why you don’t see social scientists on those banned skill export lists
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Teaching CS as social science and within it is really interesting. It’s like putting a motor inside the usual social science stuff. They can *do* things almost immediately and survey the consequences.
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Indeed!
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Policy matters, folks. Bad policies like Brexit have long lasting negative effects.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · May 1
Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....

Spoiler, it does not end happily

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Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....

Spoiler, it does not end happily

www.ft.com/content/342d...
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