Ireland and The Great Reset: understanding the world's biggest tax haven

Ireland markets itself as many things: quaint, twee, and down-to-earth. It's also one of the biggest players in the world of money laundering billionaires. It's a secret the Irish state tries desperately to keep, and its time you know about it.

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This is the unexamined state of Irish neoliberalism, wealth inequality, health inequality, and Capitalist Realism? In Ireland, we have one of the most neoliberal political establishments and precarious boom-and-bust economies in the world.
Can we ever redeem it and make it something greater than normal?

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