Hibernian Greenspan-ism was embraced from the Galway tent to the Central Bank’s bulletins, and celebrated as Ireland became ...

When you are in a crisis, the choice is never between good and bad – it’s always between bad and worse. Ireland has a housing crisis. We have far too many people and not enough homes for them. We ...

Demography is destiny. The single most important statistic in any developed economy is the population size. When planning for the future, the most critical forecast concerns the number of people in ...

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 ...

Is the attack on Iran a Suez moment for the United States? The Suez crisis in 1957 was the end of the road for Britain’s 200-year role as a global rule-maker. From then on, it became a rule-taker. The ...

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 ...

In 1992, I moved into a flat on Parliament Street in Dublin city centre. Back then, the four residents of the refurbished 18th-century building were the only people living on the street. Yes, you read ...

They say that sporting talent is in the genes. Could it be that Harry Kane – the man who will captain England in next week’s World Cup – got his sporting ability from his great great grandfather, an ...

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 ...

In the Maga movement, trade surpluses with the United States are an affront to its core ideology. And the country with the largest trade surplus with the US has the largest target on its back. In the ...

This week Fox News, that bastion of truth, claimed that violent crime in Dublin is surging. Armed with a ‘statistic’ that murders and assaults were up 114 per cent, the American broadcaster reported ...