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Brian Lucey

@brianmlucey.bsky.social

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Grumpy, older, man. Almost done finance professor. Journal editor and reviewer wrangler. Mostly harmless. MAY contain snark and sarcasm. "A cunning Fenian pest"

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Brian M. Lucey is a professor at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He is editor-in-chief of the International Review of Economics & Finance.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2h

Unfortunately the USA has not only declined to be part of the international criminal Court but has in fact sanctioned members of the international family court. Your nation has gone rogue. And nobody from the outside is going to come and save you.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2h

And Americans still think that their local small town police forces are going to stand up for them....

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 15h

My feeling is it's up to voters to educ themselves.
As Lincoln said "the people can vote to turn their backside to the fire but then they will have to learn to sit upon the blisters".
This, them, now

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 19h

Don't rural areas vote disproportionately for Republicans?

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 20h

Are we just after Antonine and heading into cyprian 😬

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 23h

I'm going to regret asking you this, giving you have an unnerving ability to find dystopian but sadly plausible outcomes.... Where do you see this going? This being the United States speed running into whatever it is?

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

Real Americans don't order foreign stuff remember?

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

I mean forget about the fact that the Northeast voted overwhelmingly to stay within the union. Or that legally, the war of independence was actually declared by us.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm suggesting that there must be some democratic law officers somewhere who will take the step of arresting some of these goons for the innumerable laws they are breaking

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm suggesting that some senior democratic leaders, whether in state or federal situations where they have immunity from their speech, start reading out the names and addresses of ICE leadership

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm suggesting that for example the senior democratic leadership could show up at some of these protests and just beg to be arrested and handcuffed

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not denying facts. I live in the place.
I'm pointing out some of the well-known economic issues. Fun fact... That's kind of my job. No I and others have been polite to you to suggest this things are not as simple as you suggest so please return the politeness

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

Yes this is something about which we are quite aware. Multinationals however tend to have multi-billion investments and don't just ubsticks chasing marginal tax changes.
We already increased our taxes and didn't see any major changes.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

the tax issue may have been part of it in the past but now its much much more ecosystem+education+eu base

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

Sigh
No. OECD cant set tax rates. Irelands effective corporate tax rate is not especially low or out of line with others. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Corporate Tax Statistics 2024

Corporate Tax Statistics is an OECD flagship publication on corporate income tax, and includes information on corporate taxation, MNE activity, and base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) practices.

www.oecd.org

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

Irelands GDP is ....buggy. Other comparison metrics are more meaningful. Overall, Ireland is about the same as UK overall BUT that is dragged up by London and SE

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

There's no guarantee Scotland would be in the EU. Almost certainty it would require a significant amount of work. It's going to take years..
And I doubt if GDP would double.
Plus it would only have as a proportion if you didn't add any more debt which given the deficit you run...

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

The last time the UK broke up was in 1921. You might want to have a look at what happened then. Because that's the pattern. This is not how it works.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland was in a effective currency union, with the Irish punt fully backed by Sterling, from 1922 to 1979. We suffered serious devaluations and currency instability until we join the exchange rate mechanism.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 2d

It's a tiny bit more difficult than that.
If you created a Scottish let's call it shilling, it would immediately suffer a massive devaluation. Good for Scottish whiskey and oil, very very bad for imports.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

I doubt that very much. This is a human thing.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

If you haven't noticed, the Republicans don't care and the Democrats don't act

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

The American opposition has been astoundingly quiet. I suspect that if the union of French second level school librarians was to organize opposition it would be far more effective than this

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

In business and management the UTD24, a list of 24 journals that somewhere along the way the University of Texas at Dallas put out, is seen as the most gold standard.
Honestly, when academia put US academia on the altar it was a grave grave mistake.

Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 3d

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

The currency issue is the impossible trilemma.
This has been explained to Scottish politicians for decades but they are unable to come up with a coherent plan to explain this to the voters

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

Yes.
Did you expect anything else? Many are quite happy with this. Others are absolutely precarious and will not put their head above the parapet.
Most university leaders are a politicians and well...

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah maybe. But you've got to get that whole we're independent thing going. I mean we did it. 100 years ago. Take your time.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

And the opposition is doing what? Is it thoughts and prayers? Because that worked so well for school violence

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 3d

Looking at the screaming mess of insanity that passes for UK politics, there is zero chance of the EU ever letting you guys within an asses roar of joining.

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