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Interesting article in Bloomberg highlighting Norway’s Dutch Disease that is its $2trn oil-based sovereign wealth fund. The problem, according to a recent book, is that Norway has too much money allowing households to accumulate piles of debt and enabling the government to fund

Most people who complain about the ‘planning system’ are just hacks who hate local democracy and want Ireland to be filled with substandard build-to-rent properties to enrich investment funds 🏠

Ireland's housing crisis has a SOLUTION hiding in plain sight: RETURN POWER TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES. From the 1930s to the 1950s, over 100,000 social housing units were built—because LOCAL AUTHORITIES had real power. In the 1980s, they provided 25% of all mortgages. Today? Less

1. I read the Auckland report, it assumed every permit was built inside 2 years to correlate price falls to supply, it didn't happen 2. NZ permits lower 2024 than 2019 3. Houston apt permitting fell 78% May'23-May'25 "Texans and Kiwis" didn't understand what they tried to do

‘To deal with the housing problem it’s not about availability but affordability… the problem is the financialisation of housing as an asset which inflates its price’ Conor Skehan on #radiobrendan 🏠

⁦Colm Parkinson⁩ ⁦Kerry GAA⁩ ⁦Radio Kerry⁩ ⁦RTÉ GAA⁩ Patience is the name of the game .

In my latest substack I debunk the myth that there is a housing shortage 🏠🔗👇

Humanoid robots embodiment of China's AI ambitions. Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at Shanghai's World AI Conference (WAIC) this weekend were embodiments of China's growing AI prowess and ambition

Couples earning €100,000-plus struggle to afford a home independent.ie/business/money…

"It's a particularly bad deal for Ireland ... we're much more exposed" Martina Lawless of the ESRI outlines the effects the EU-US trade deal could have on the country. #TonightVMTV

An FT Big Read on Ireland "Ironically, it was Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed in 2017, that turbocharged Ireland’s corporation tax profits by inadvertently providing incentives for pharma companies to shift their IP into Ireland from tax havens." 1/