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 ...

History shows us the gradual but permanent collapse of sterling as the world’s pre-eminent currency during the 1920s – a decade that was characterised by recurring sterling crises. Such financial ...

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 ...

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 With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How did Ireland arrive at this misunderstanding of economic prerogatives? The conversation centred on trying to understand why a government in a European democracy that is facing serious ...

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 ...