Jim Power: Forget Brexit and Donald Trump, jobs is the good news story

That is a staggering statistic, in the context of challenges such as Britain’s exit from the EU and the uncertainty generated by the election of Donald Trump as US president.
It goes to show how leaders of business just get on with the job of doing business and allow economists to get on with the job of worrying, and politicians with the job of engaging in endless, and meaningless, bickering in the Dáil.