The Big Picture Vincent Boland: If AI does advance to outsmart us humans, we need to be readyWith the possible exception of inflation, AI is the number one factor driving investor sentiment in the stock market but regulatory demands are growing
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Fed’s hasty revision of interest rates is most dramatic shift in expectations in yearsDemand for interest cuts in election year likely to see economy take centre stage in UK and US races
The Big Picture Netanyahu’s barbaric army is out of control and is alienating all his allies Israel is quickly losing any international sympathy and support it had after the Hamas terror attack on October 7
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Brakes go on the move to the brave new electric car worldThe revolution might not be going to plan, with a drop in EV sales worldwide raising questions about the shift to greener travel
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: If RTÉ and the BBC are to stay the same, then they have to changePublic service broadcasting is in financial crisis. Now is the time to consider what it is actually for
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Why is the US using an 134-year-old law to bring Apple to heel?New regulatory probes have raised the prospect that the best of times may be over for Big Tech
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Bankers need to stop having hissy fits over regulationBankers are fighting back against the latest efforts to regulate them, but their special pleadings are becoming tiresome
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Yes the value of stock markets are soaring, yet IPOs are in steep decline The market shrinkage is mostly a western, mainly European phenomenon, while markets in Asia continue to grow
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: A US ban of TikTok raises issues of principle and practicality and is antithetical to free speechThe US and the UK have over-reacted with these displays of performative pandering to political lobbies and snubbing of allies
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Bitcoin rises from the dead ... and it stinks to high heavenCrypto universe is shrouded in mystification, boosterism and investor credulousness
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: China’s journey to prosperity is stuck – and something has to giveIts economy recently kept the world ticking over but it has faced a series of downturns that mean a new path must be found
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: After 34 years, Japan’s Nikkei has something to shout about at lastThe wait is over for investors as stock market finally surpasses high last achieved in December 1989
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Putin is having a fantastic 2024, it can’t continueTide has turned in Russia’s favour on second anniversary of Ukraine invasion, Europe must now respond to help Ukraine prevail
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Biden may be old, but Nato comments show Trump is unhinged The world has gotten used to the deadbeat developer-turned-politician talking trash, but his comments last week still shocked
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Farmers are their own worst enemies but must not be ignored As climate change accelerates and the green transition becomes more urgent and costly – farmers are at the coalface, whether they like it or not
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: At X, Musk often acts like a jerk as he panders to crass cult instinctsHe gets away with it because he is surrounded by acolytes and a supine board but that will not last forever
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Rise of radical right afflicts ailing Germany in year of disenchantment There are enough reasons for angst in Europe’s largest country but growing support for the AfD is the gravest threat facing it
The Big Picture UK Post Office scandal shows computers were more trusted than peopleWhatever the eventual outcome, though, the affair of the UK Post Office and the Dodgy Computer System is a salutary, heartrending and profoundly unsettling tale
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: US universities blew chance to set Israel record straight Academia should be able to say uncomfortable things but on some issues, particularly antisemitic, absolute clarity is necessary
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: The rising enemy from within poses greatest threat to EU unityEU leaders will meet in Brussels this week, where the agenda could hardly be more pressing nor the backdrop more gloomy