Welcome to the final Business Digest of 2024.
Businessman Declan Ganley is under pressure again with another US court hearing looming in January and suggestions from the Rivada Networks shareholder he has been battling, David Schuman, that the Galway businessman is living the high life while failing to meet a court debt judgment. Barry Whyte has the details
Consumer sentiment was on “Santa pause” in December, holding steady as Irish households continued to weigh up the “conflicting and often confusing forces” affecting their economic and financial circumstances, the latest index from the Irish League of Credit Unions shows. Laura Slattery reports.
Google has finally come out swinging at suggestions that it should be forced to offload its Chrome browser business to address competition concerns after a loss in the US courts. But opponents say its proposals are not nearly dramatic enough to ensure real change.
Eoin Burke-Kennedy examines the rapidly widening gap between rich and poor. It may make trillionaires of the likes of Elon Musk but, in the longer term, might it also usher in an era of radical politics led by those who feel locked out of a system that is more oligarchy than meritocracy?
In her column, Pilita Clark looks at an upstart London bakery that has quietly worked on giving young offenders a second chance without ever asking to be judged on that metric.
And in Opinion, Gillian Tett argues that last week’s threatened shutdown of the US government is just a taste of the battles we can expect under the incoming Trump administration, except those battles ill be within the Republican party, not between it and the Democrats.
And with that, we wish all our readers a Happy Christmas. Look forward to seeing you in the new year when we return.
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