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 ...
The one thing that successive Irish governments want to avoid is having to make a choice between Europe and the US. As long as the US is guardian of the Grand Bargain, Ireland can be European and ...
In late August 1989 I travelled to Czechoslovakia by train via East Germany to witness the 21st anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring. People spoke about the beauty of Prague but few Irish people had ...
The New York subway system, built largely by Irish labour a century ago, is a mass-transit achievement that shuttles four million commuters around the city every day. Exposed metal rivets jutting out ...
At Dublin Airport beyond US immigration lies a piece of America and today the place is buzzing with tourists, students, business people and Irish-American families. With about 40 direct daily flights ...
Economies are on my mind: Australia, where I’m on a book tour; Argentina, which just voted again for Javier Milei’s party; and Ireland where we elected a president who could be described as hard-left.
Architecture is historical evidence and the stout, self-confident Victorian buildings lining Melbourne’s broad avenues confirm this is a metropolis that has been dynamic for a long time. In 1851, a ...
Australia has not experienced a recession in four decades. The economy has grown every year since 1990. Consider the chaos we in the West have experienced economically, financially, industrially and ...
“Gradually and then suddenly,” is how Ernest Hemingway described bankruptcy in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. This is what often happens when people run out of money and options. At first money ...
From plutocrat to bureaucrat, everyone seems to have an opinion on Dublin’s proposed MetroLink. Some argue it’s too expensive to build, others that it’s too expensive not to build. One opinion that ...
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