Why Trump Is About to Come for Ireland
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What is the Ozempic boom and its impact on Ireland?
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Today's podcast is all about the economics of Ozempic or Mongero. It's going to be talking about Eli Lilly's results. Eli Lilly pays twice as much tax in Ireland as it does in America, which is an awful thing for us to admit. And we're going to talk about the economics of the drugs themselves. plus the fragility of an economy which is over-dependent on one source of corporate finance and corporate taxation, which is a description of Ireland at the moment and our extraordinary over-dependence on American multinationals. That's all coming up in a couple of minutes. To understand the economy, you have to understand human nature.
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How are you doing there? It is time for the podcast. Today's podcast is all going to be about skinny people. It's not us. It's not us, but if you're very skinny and you're out there, this is all about you. It's all for you. No, it's going to be about the economics of Monjaro, Monjaro, Zempek, all that stuff, weight loss, drugs, but it's also going to be about... impact of weight loss drugs on the bottom line of pharmaceutical companies and the tax they pay in Ireland vis-a-vis the tax they should pay in the United States, all against the background of President Donald Trump having yet another hissy fit about who is a good neighbour, who is a good ally. It's kind of hard to take lectures on good corporate citizenship from a man who is bombing the shite out of a country, as we speak.
Indeed. Indeed. Who said he wouldn't either? But anyway.
Anyway. But we are going to talk about that at another stage. But that's what we're going to talk about, John. How are you, Ed? It's good to see you. Yeah, and you. And you. It's good. It's good. But what is interesting about pharmaceuticals, right, is that pharmaceuticals are the one area that Trump... appears to be, and rightly so, aggrieved.
And Notlick as well.
He's the one who bangs on about it. But the interesting thing is that there are many ways in which the Americans can introduce tariffs. There's many various different acts that they use.
How does Eli Lilly's tax contribution to Ireland compare to the US?
So the Supreme Court has just struck down one act, which is the Emergency Economic Powers Act, right? And the Emergency Economic Powers Act says the president can, at a time of emergency, do whatever they want commercially.
Yeah.
But what the Supreme Court says, but you have to define the emergency. And what they've looked at is there's no evidence that the United States is in an emergency.
Yes.
So what they've said is that legalistically it can't be. But there are many other acts. So there is a section 232, John, of the Trade Expansion Act, which governs pharmaceuticals, which may well... Oh, specifically? Yeah, which may well be... the legislation that Trump or the American administration uses to target the activities of the pharmaceutical industry. The reason I'll tell you, Trump remarked when Neil Martin went to the White House last year, Trump remarked, said, all of a sudden, Ireland has our pharmaceutical companies. This beautiful island of 5 million people has got the entire US pharmaceutical industry in its grasp, right? So he is looking at that, and this... podcast today is going to be all about triggering donald trump okay and specifically a
Announcement last week by Eli Lilly, which is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the United States.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the Ozempic boom and its impact on Ireland?
0:00–3:05
2
How does Eli Lilly's tax contribution to Ireland compare to the US?
3:05–8:02
3
What are the economic implications of weight loss drugs like Monjaro?
8:02–14:55
4
How does the American pharmaceutical industry view Ireland?
14:55–19:23
5
What are the risks of Ireland's dependency on multinational corporations?
19:23–21:59
6
How does the tax structure in Ireland affect corporate responsibility?
21:59–29:48
7
What is the significance of corporate tax revenue in Ireland?
29:48–41:30
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