Never in their wildest dreams could crypto backers have imagined the US president promoting a token that sought to undermine ...

Leaving Cert economics tells you what happens when demand soars and supply falters – prices go up and queues form, ultimately leading to stagflation, a scenario where prices go up while the economy ...

Economically, these three countries are by far the most successful of post-Soviet Republics, anchoring themselves politically, commercially and militarily to the West, via the EU and Nato. I’ve yet to ...

On Friday morning, again in cheerful sunlight, the liveliness at the core of Galway city evoked a different size and style. These two cities, Limerick and Galway, are essential to Ireland’s future ...

At the start of the week there was a fear, not unreasonable, that tariffs might be applied to individual countries based on their specific trade surplus with the United States – a measure, in Trump’s ...

Certainly Donald Trump’s foreign policy has a 19th-century feel to it. In economic terms, imperialism can be summed up as the strong taking what it wants from the weak, forcing weaker countries and ...

Take the biggest issue facing Ireland right now – the housing market. With data and the right model of what drives house prices in real life, we can set policy that is likely to succeed. If the ...

But “shock and awe” runs its course and with no substance to back it up, people will eventually react with a collective “meh”. We’ve seen this in Hollywood: when the ratings start to fall the ...

Before we answer that question, let’s look at the numbers – how many homes are being bought and sold, who is buying them and where is the money going. Some are getting rich off the back of this ...

We are about to be “tariffed” and this will have a significant impact on Ireland’s economic model, entirely based as it is on open, free and ubiquitous trade, the more the better. There’s nothing we ...

Where that generation takes society is anyone’s guess but, like the 1980s punk movement, something will erupt when least expected ...