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The US now is ‘like having a dance with a gorilla. You might want to stop, but the gorilla…

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Ibec’s chief executive Danny McCoy say sentiment in the US is not good, and predicts global uncertainty will have hampered economic growth here

Ibec’s chief executive Danny McCoy say sentiment in the US is not good, and predicts global uncertainty will have hampered economic growth here

John Burns

Today at 03:30

Interviewing Danny McCoy of Ibec is an education. Over the course of an hour, he explains game theory, the move from stakeholder capitalism back to shareholder capitalism, and why businesses need a social licence to trade.

This doesn’t surprise us – after all, he’s taught economics in Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and University College London. And like any good lecturer, McCoy makes the theory more digestible by sprinkling in metaphors, aphorisms, and quotations from James Carville and Michelle Obama.

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