Australians get a bigger societal bang for their government spending buck. There’s barely an Irish family that doesn’t have a ...

In contrast, Irish radicals who covet extreme social, political or economic change have (so far) found their aspirations ...

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 ...

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 With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

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 ...

No matter what some people might argue, Ireland needs immigrants. This economy and society cannot survive without them. From healthcare to high-tech, construction to hospitality, the country would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What a week. From Gaza to Canada, Greenland and Panama, not to mention tariffs, the death of USAID, the firing of government employees and the proposed heist of rare earths from Ukraine, one thing you ...