Juan Perón turned Argentina into an economic basket case with the kind of meddling now embraced by the US president ...

Panellists: David McWilliams, Sophie Gilbert, Clinton Fernandes and Richard King with chair Carody Culver Where: Underground ...

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 ...

It matters because houses prices are continuing to soar. The latest data shows prices are up 7.8 per cent in the year to June, twice the rate of the increase in the average wage. Whoever is buying the ...

Have you ever spent time in any Church of Ireland chapels around the country? Among other things, these isolated and now largely empty rural buildings are the resting place of a military culture that ...

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 ...

What a week to be thinking about the world and geopolitics! I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s not clear whether you, me or anyone else can stomach 3½ more years of this carry on. Recently this ...

When it comes to business, one of the best descriptions of the Irish I have ever heard is that we prefer to be liked rather than feared. Affable, reasonably generous, good fun and chatty, most of the ...

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 ...