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Constantin Gurdgiev
@GTCost
Academic bit.ly/3Wbw8lc & bit.ly/3v1Z17p. Research in financial markets & VUCA. If you are managing risk, you are mismanaging reality. 8,9,58
Fort Collins, CO & Dublin, IRL
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Mar 13, 2024
    #Ireland is an interesting country & a very revealing political 'laboratory' for the entire West. Let's have a quick thread on that. Ireland came into this century on foot of being a failed state in the 1980s. As such, its younger generations grew up in an environment of rapid+
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Feb 15, 2022
    Wow! Wow! @Trickstersworld nails it 100% on @ClaireByrneLive. Nails it. No matter what side of voting for whatever party you may be on.
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    Dáithí K
    @tvcritics
    Feb 14, 2022
    Replying to @tvcritics
    Well said Tony Goves. #cblive
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Mar 9, 2024
    I mean, for real? Does Ireland still have any semblance of governance left? Freedom of press? Whistleblowing? Government concealment of information from the voters? This is genuinely shocking for a democracy.
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    Paddy Cosgrave
    @paddycosgrave
    Mar 9, 2024
    Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty more concerned with catching the leaker of the AG’s advice, than the fact the Government lied to the people. These people are utterly out of touch.
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Feb 12, 2020
    Brendan Howlin was one of the principals behind foreign vulture funds raiding Irish housing markets, and Irish banks getting a free ride at the taxpayers expense. He presided over the public sector reforms & reviews that systemically failed to deliver any meaningful reforms in +
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Mar 9, 2024
    I might not earn myself any new friends and might even lose some old friends, but, as a person who spent now good part of 15 years in senior non-exec roles in Irish non-profit sector, I believe NGOs should stop issuing recommendation on how people should vote. Bear with me for +
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Apr 7, 2022
    Ok. So... Professorship. 1. Does he have a PhD (de minimum requirement for the policy field)? Seems to me - no. 2. Does he have a single peer reviewed publication comparable with Professorship bar? Seems to me - none.
    Questions remain over Tony Holohan's 'unusual' €187k move to Trinity
    From irishexaminer.com
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Sep 11, 2024
    I disagree. Irish housing policies are NOT designed to "deter vulture funds". They are designed explicitly to attract vulture funds. So the system isn't failing. It is delivering exactly what it is expected to deliver.
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    Rob Cross
    @RobCross247
    Sep 9, 2024
    Ireland's housing system is not fit for purpose as it fails to deter vulture funds from buying properties that could be homes for individual buyers. On May 20, 2021, the Irish Government introduced a 10% stamp duty on bulk purchases of residential houses. This measure aimed to
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Jul 1, 2024
    Irish success: make households pay to drive empty bottles around.
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    Charlie Weston
    @CWeston_Indo
    Jul 1, 2024
    Customers warned bin charges to rise as bottle return scheme hits waste firm profits independent.ie/irish-news/cus…
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Apr 9, 2024
    It's just over 100 miles & currently takes 2 hours 5 minutes. Which is city-tram-level slow. And it will remain thus even after "multimillion investment". This is the joke that passes for transport infrastructure investment on the island of Ireland. Zero ambition. Zero modernity.
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    The Irish Times
    @IrishTimes
    Apr 9, 2024
    Dublin-Belfast train to take less than two hours and run hourly after multimillion investment irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Oct 5, 2022
    My heart goes out to the 'employees of @twitter'. Throughout this takeover saga, they suffered much uncertainty as to whether they'll be allowed to continue facilitating states-sponsored PSYOP bots in attacks on folks dissenting with the prevailing State propaganda.
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    Donie O'Sullivan
    @donie
    Oct 5, 2022
    CNN's @claresduffy breaks down where we are in the great Musk-Twitter debacle of 2022. cnn.com/2022/10/04/tec…
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    May 2, 2025
    Honestly, at what point 'enough is (genuinely) enough'? From Nama grift to a 'housing tzar'. How many fiascoes does it take? What Golden Spoon University degree does it take to succeed in Ireland? How rhetorical can my questions get?
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    The Ditch
    @wereontheditch
    May 2, 2025
    NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh’s north Dublin home – which The Ditch revealed was registered under the alias PB McDonnacha – is being advertised to rent on a short-term letting site for more than €10,000 a week. He was to be government’s new housing tsar. ontheditch.com/nama-chief-cha…
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Jul 4, 2024
    A Minster is not in control of his Department. This would be a resigning matter, but... reality is, no Minister in Ireland exercises any serious control over their Department. The Permanent Government do. They are hereditary, job-for-life clique of a limited number of families. +
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    The Irish Sun
    @IrishSunOnline
    Jul 4, 2024
    Today's front page of The Irish Sun
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Aug 29, 2020
    #golfgate in perspective: (1) A country can’t build a children’s hospital = no one resigns; (2) Homelessness crisis raging for years = everyone re-elected; (3) Vulture Funds get rich on mass misery = everyone keeps jobs, perks, salaries. (4) A golf outing in violation of safety +
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    Constantin Gurdgiev
    @GTCost
    Jan 30, 2025
    He does not have a clue what he is doing. The US cannot run lower trade deficits w/o dramatically reducing money supply worldwide. And THAT cannot be done without cutting the US dollar role as a dominant currency. Which is the sole source of the US non-military power. Worse: +
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    Financelot
    @FinanceLancelot
    Jan 30, 2025
    BREAKING: President Trump officially announces 25% tariffs on 🇨🇦Canada and 🇲🇽Mexico
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