Cliff Taylor: Do we want bankers running our banks, or politicians?Political control would leave the banking sector in a state of suspended animationSat May 28 2016 - 00:05
What you need to know when a ‘vulture’ buys your mortgageIssue arises again in light of Ulster Bank’s imminent sale of 900 homeloansThu May 26 2016 - 12:16
Mortgage caps would undermine bank, says ex-IMF executiveDonal Donovan says proposal is an attempt by politicians ‘to push Central Bank around’Thu May 26 2016 - 01:00
Irish Water to suspend penalties for unpaid billsCompany waiting for legislation to be published before deciding on late payment chargesSat May 14 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: To pay or not to pay? Mixed messages on water charges‘That Finian McGrath wanted to consult the Attorney General on whether he should pay shows level of farce we have reached’Fri May 13 2016 - 18:08
Ten ways the new government plan will affect your pocketFrom water charges to sugar tax, the new regime will impact on your walletThu May 12 2016 - 10:56
Rent rises striking when compared to inflation, wagesAnalysis: Lack of supply, increased demand and lack building combines to create crisisTue May 10 2016 - 12:40
Cliff Taylor: There is going to be trouble come Budget timeSwerving choices means programme for government is a wish list, not a planSat May 07 2016 - 01:00
State not to sell more than 25% of AIB by 2019Draft programme for government also commits to court to deal with mortgage arrearsThu May 05 2016 - 20:08
No USC abolition; more spending; pressure on banks . . . and another water quangoCliff Taylor’s five key points from the FG/FF dealWed May 04 2016 - 12:05
Cliff Taylor: Why it takes 14 years to build a children’s hospitalThe commission on water charging is one of the finest examples yet of the political system’s ability to put off making a decisionSat Apr 30 2016 - 00:19
Caveat: Why stop at suspending just water charges?The TV licence could be scrapped for a period while ‘top salaries’ at RTÉ are examinedFri Apr 29 2016 - 09:07
Central Bank pays €1.8bn dividend to exchequerGovernor warns new mortgage rules intended to be a permanent featureWed Apr 27 2016 - 10:42
Regulator contacts Stobart Air about boardroom changesIAA concerned about tensions at company which runs Aer Lingus reigonal networkWed Apr 27 2016 - 01:00
Boardroom tensions at Stobart as Tinkler moves in as chairmanAppointment of group chief executive to board follows departure of chair last weekTue Apr 26 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: Executive pay hikes don’t chime well with calls for wage restraintIrish business chiefs are getting big hikes that make the demands of the Luas drivers look almost reasonable by comparisonSat Apr 23 2016 - 00:43
Irish Water deal thwarts new way to raise money for infrastructureAnalysis: Compromise either means less money for water or less for other areas of economyThu Apr 21 2016 - 12:58
Cliff Taylor: Irish Water will show us who is serious about minority governmentIf deal does not fly, we may be told water was crunch point, but there will be more fundamental issues at playSat Apr 16 2016 - 00:23
Revenue offers settlement talks to 3,000 taxpayersSettlement talks may be entered before cases are passed to new Tax Appeals CommissionThu Apr 14 2016 - 01:00
Think you pay too much tax? The OECD finds you don’t‘Take home pay’ exceeds salary for average Irish family thanks to child benefit study showsTue Apr 12 2016 - 12:54
Cliff Taylor: Mind the gap – Ireland without a governmentThe longer the political vacuum persists, odds shorten of a ‘growth gap’ emergingSat Apr 09 2016 - 01:00
Analysis: Obama move is another warning signal to IrelandCollapse of Pfizer/Allergan merger shows hardening political attitude to tax dealsWed Apr 06 2016 - 11:41
Cliff Taylor: Why the reluctance to govern in the world’s fastest-growing economy?Instead of grasping their opportunity, the big parties have collectively lost confidenceSat Apr 02 2016 - 01:00
NTMA to to hold bond auctions this month and nextAgency to take advantage of historically low market interest rates to hold auctionsSat Apr 02 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: Selling on of loans means future is uncertainLike the mortgage debt crisis, the crisis of small business debts still has a way to runWed Mar 30 2016 - 01:01
Cliff Taylor: Setting up new quangos is not the solutionRecent history is littered with institutional shake-ups, most of which have achieved very littleFri Mar 25 2016 - 10:40
Analysis: Good news and bad for the Irish Stock ExchangeOther companies such as DCC, Greencore and Grafton have abandoned Dublin completelyThu Mar 24 2016 - 12:50
AIB and BoI repaid 31% of bailout funds by end of 2015Total value of Irish Strategic Investment Fund rose almost 11% over first yearThu Mar 24 2016 - 12:20
Luas pay rises may set off scramble for limited resourcesThere is a risk that younger employees will get left behind as others assert their claimsSun Mar 20 2016 - 09:33
Changes in tax appeals system come into force on MondayAppeals will now go to the Tax Appeals Commission, an independent statutory bodySat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
Brexit threat makes forming a government all the more urgentIreland cannot sit on the sidelines during debate and aftermath of potential No voteMon Mar 14 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor : The economy is not growing by anything like 7.8 per centIronically, by overstating economic growth the data over the past year or so may have actually hurt the coalitionSat Mar 12 2016 - 00:27
Borrower or saver: What ECB rate cut means for your pocketCompetition should keep variable rates edging lowerThu Mar 10 2016 - 14:24
ECB cuts main interest rate to zero in surprise move as part of major effort to boost euro zoneTracker mortgage holders to benefit, markets stunnedThu Mar 10 2016 - 12:59
The boom is getting boomier - a quick take on the GDP figuresThere is no doubt that the economy recorded an extraordinary rebound last yearThu Mar 10 2016 - 12:37
Three things to watch at today’s ECB meetingThe latest ruro zone inflation reading shows an annual rate of just 0.2 per centThu Mar 10 2016 - 09:48
Cliff Taylor: A new government has golden opportunity to tackle problemsCurrent economic factors offer a chance to repair some damage. But we must act nowSat Mar 05 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: Facebook ‘likes’ UK tax but does it mean unfriending Ireland?Move highlights dangers and opportunities for Ireland from proposed new tax rulesFri Mar 04 2016 - 13:38
Can we have business as usual in Ireland’s ruptured political landscape?Will the potential for political instability affect investor and consumer confidence?Fri Mar 04 2016 - 07:30
Irish borrowing costs little changed after election resultsThe yield on 10-year bonds holds steady at 0.9 per cent in low trading volumesMon Feb 29 2016 - 13:51
Business wants stability, but who knows now what it will get?Populism makes position facing any minority government more problematicMon Feb 29 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: The numbers to watch as count drama plays outComing days will be a poker game with nobody willing to show their cardsSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: Five key trends in latest jobs figuresUnemployment on a downward trajectory for over three years but financial sector one of losersTue Feb 23 2016 - 12:31
Cliff Taylor: Boris pounds sterling, so what does it mean for IrelandSterling is on the slide again and if it continues it will hit Irish exporters selling into the UKMon Feb 22 2016 - 13:44
Cliff Taylor: We can’t assume the recovery will continue but lets leave Pudsy out of itVoters need to believe their leaders can add but they are not interested in blackholesSat Feb 20 2016 - 09:29
Brady motors off after putting Citi on the road to successOutgoing CEO Aidan Brady was a master of reinvention in his two decades at the helm of US bank operation in DublinFri Feb 19 2016 - 06:50
Cliff Taylor: Maybe you should have gone in November, Mr KennyEven if economic dangers were there before, they are clearer now than a few months agoSat Feb 13 2016 - 03:02
Give Me a Crash Course In . . . stock-market fallsIf growth slows internationally it will hit growth here eventually. So take election promises to cut taxes, increase pensions and lower the cost of childcare with a pinch of saltSat Feb 13 2016 - 01:00
Cliff Taylor: Five reasons to keep calm and carry on despite market turmoilIt may not be time to panic, but a lot of what is happening in the markets now is cause for real concernThu Feb 11 2016 - 12:45
Ireland borrows at a record low rate in bond auctionNTMA auctions €1 billion of debt at below 1% in last fund-raising in first quarterThu Feb 11 2016 - 09:40