As Clare and Tipperary people know, Ireland has become a country of sprawl, of suburbs creeping into countryside and towns ...

This is precisely what has been happening in Ireland over the past 15 years. The Irish banking system is not working. The role of banks in the economy is to take in deposits and lend out money. This ...

Crypto is not money. It will never be. If or when it falls fully to earth, expect retribution for the various grifters who pushed and pumped it. The eighth circle of hell might be a bit extreme, but ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

One of the joys of writing a weekly column is the unusual tributaries explored, often sparked by real-world events. Today I’ve been watching old clips of The Godfather, in particular Marlon Brando’s ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

What’s the matter with Ranelagh? Before examining the economics of the last-ditch attempt to stop the country’s biggest infrastructural project, it is worth remembering why the MetroLink is ending ...

The dilapidated state of our cities and towns is an embarrassment. The sight of such urban vandalism should make us wince. With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, an eminent economics professor at prestigious Stanford University in California, was described by the Stanford Daily in 1976 as “a Marxist scholar . . . too ...

Now that the election is out of the way, it’s time to get serious about housing. Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to. Otherwise there will never be real social ...