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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What a week to be thinking about the world and geopolitics! I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s not clear whether you, me or anyone else can stomach 3½ more years of this carry on.

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 ...

Let’s talk about the message, who gets to tell the story, who constructs the narrative and who frames the debate. The reason I’m ending the year with this column on who tells the story is, maybe like ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

We are heading into a trade war. That’s what the United States wants and that’s what the world will get. In 2025 it will become increasingly obvious that you can’t have a trade war without a capital ...