The question haunting the corridors of the EU and the ECB is: could France be a huge Greece at the heart of the bloc?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the golden rules of economics is you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Managing a problem will be easier using hard evidence, backed by accurate data. It is a business school version of the ...

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 ...

It’s not bad people who destroy cities, it’s bad incentives. Bear this economic rule in mind when digesting the State’s welcome initiative to save Dublin city, which was unveiled this week. “Saving ...

It’s not every day you find yourself in the Orthodox church where Alexander Pushkin’s great-grandfather was baptised. There is something calming about these dark, ornate and often windowless churches.

This week two global reports underscored the extraordinary education revolution that has taken place in Ireland. We are now the most educated country on the planet, above Singapore and Switzerland ...

Average rents have hit all-time highs, especially in cities. Has the economy gone from hot to hotter? And what are we going to do about it? In the past couple of months the average new rent nationwide ...