Reuters (November 8)
“The unique exposure of Ireland’s low-tax business model to the United States could place its public finances at significant risk under a Donald Trump presidency.” The president-elect has promised “to incentivise industries to bring production back to the United States, and to slash the corporate tax rate to Irish levels.” This could “prove existential for Ireland’s decades-old model of attracting jobs and tax dollars from U.S. multinationals.”
Tags: Business model, Corporate tax rate, Existential, Exposure, Ireland, Jobs, Low-tax, Production, Public finances, Risk, Slash, Trump, U.S., Unique
Financial Times (February 15)
“As OpenAI enters its year of rapid growth, questions about the long-term viability of its business model remain.” Despite such grandiose goals as accelerating “global productivity and economic growth,” corporations are struggling “to figure out how to integrate generative AI into their processes, or estimate what kinds of cost and productivity benefits it might bring.”
Tags: Benefits, Business model, Corporations, Cost, Economic growth, Generative AI, Global productivity, Grandiose, Growth, OpenAI, Processes, Struggling, Viability
Wall Street Journal (January 22)
“The rash of failures showed how interconnected the crypto lenders were, allowing market shocks to ripple through one lender to the next.” Though they essentially “have the same business model as banks,” crypto lenders lack the regulatory protections and failsafe measures, which ensure “small depositors are kept whole in the case of a bank failure.”
Tags: Banks, Business model, Crypto lenders, Depositors, Failsafe, Failures, Interconnected, Market shocks, Rash, Regulatory protections, Ripple
CNBC (October 28)
In what may prove a seminal for Big Oil, activist Dan Loeb is “calling for the breakup of Royal Dutch Shell into a legacy oil and gas company and separate business for renewable energy.” The activists battle with Shell lies “at the heart of how an energy giant of the future shapes its business model during the energy transition and balances higher return fossil fuel projects with clean energy investment.”
Tags: Activist, Big oil, Breakup, Business model, Clean energy, Dan Loeb, Fossil fuel, Gas, Legacy, Oil, Renewable energy, Royal Dutch Shell, Transition
