Let’s give every newborn €5,500 and invest it to fund their pensionWhen everyone becomes an investor, corporate behaviour will change for the betterSun Apr 12 2020 - 15:47
Chris Johns: A shopping list for the post-Covid-19 worldIt’s time for debt forgiveness: anyone worried about ‘moral hazard’ needs to just get over itSun Apr 05 2020 - 13:31
If you think governments are spending money now, just waitChris Johns: A massive stimulus will be needed once economies are off life supportSun Mar 29 2020 - 12:47
Apple's €15bn back tax could fund Ireland's cash crunchAn escrow account holds €15bn in Apple taxes. In a changed world, we should use itSun Mar 22 2020 - 11:58
Chris Johns: Return of the expert – at least on this side of the AtlanticFrom dealing with Covid-19 to formulation of a blockbuster budget, the boffins are backSun Mar 15 2020 - 15:42
Chris Johns: Plague, pestilence and war are much more common than we thinkCoronavirus: Immediate and decisive action is needed from governments everywhereSun Mar 08 2020 - 15:04
Markets’ Covid-19 plunge signals need to loosen state purse stringsUncertainty biggest danger as analysts fret about duration of coronavirus impactSun Mar 01 2020 - 12:23
Boris Johnson's new immigration regime will damage much more than industryAre Johnson and Cummings implementing the will of the people – or gaslighting them?Sun Feb 23 2020 - 13:52
Chris Johns: The Johnson administration will spend, and needs a quiet TreasuryDominic Cummings might have the independence of the Bank of England in his sightsSun Feb 16 2020 - 15:01
Chris Johns: Often the most vicious power struggles start over trivial thingsAre Donald Trump and Nigel Farage the products of societies unable to focus on the big picture?Sun Feb 09 2020 - 12:59
Brexit is a culture war with economics as collateral damageSecuring any EU trade deal and regional development in the UK are steep challengesSun Feb 02 2020 - 13:08
Little strategic thinking in election manifestos of Fine Gael and Fianna FáilDocuments are random ideas designed to please maximum number of votersSun Jan 26 2020 - 14:46
Chris Johns: Ireland risks populist culture war over property and pensionsSinn Féin’s absurd promise to lower retirement age an explicit grab at a populist leverSun Jan 19 2020 - 11:00
Chris Johns: Relax Paschal, stop trying to run a budget surplusDon’t be surprised if more house-building has less impact on prices than you might expectSun Jan 12 2020 - 16:15
Dominic Cummings is not the messiah, he is just a very arrogant boyChris Johns: Boris Johnson’s chief adviser wants to disrupt the machinery of UK government with ‘weirdos’ and ‘misfits’Sun Jan 05 2020 - 12:59
Chris Johns: Happiness requires economic growth but not excessNothing but economic growth has ever lifted humanity out of miserySun Dec 29 2019 - 12:47
Goodbye to a decade, hello to a 2020 full of uncertaintyChris Johns: American voters are facing as stark a choice in 2020 as Britons did recentlyFri Dec 27 2019 - 06:56
Muted bond markets offer countries a chance to spend big on green projectsBoris Johnson might have stumbled on to something by promising to blow the budget on spending rises rather than tax cutsSun Dec 22 2019 - 18:58
Chris Johns: Tory voters will now want Boris to show them the moneyJohnson would like to banish Brexit from the headlines – he’s as bored by it as we areSat Dec 14 2019 - 15:23
Chris Johns: Twin horrors of Johnson and Corbyn face UK votersTories’ Brexit alliance of rich and ‘left behind’ is recipe for disappointmentSun Dec 08 2019 - 11:08
Chris Johns: Who would I vote for in the UK? Anyone who would defeat the Tory candidateJohnson’s election slogan Get Brexit Done will turn out to be the biggest lie of allSun Dec 01 2019 - 13:23
Chris Johns: Solutions to health and housing issues are beyond our political leadersMore public spending funded by somebody else’s higher taxes simply does not add upSun Nov 24 2019 - 13:25
Chris Johns: Billionaires – what are they good for?Billionaire Michael Bloomberg may take on billionaire Donald Trump. How has it come to this?Sun Nov 17 2019 - 13:21
Chris Johns: It’ll be déjà vu all over again when we start planning for a hard Brexit in 2020Boris Johnson doesn’t mean what he says he might be sincere about avoiding an extensionSun Nov 10 2019 - 12:46
Chris Johns: Brexit is distracting us from serious risks to Irish economyGlobal economic upheavals pose a greater threat to Ireland than anything in the UKSun Nov 03 2019 - 12:58
Chris Johns: Every time they confront reality, Brexiteers loseIs Dominic Cummings the Rick Astley of politics?Sun Oct 27 2019 - 15:45
Chris Johns: lying is the default setting as Brexit corruption spreadsThe strength of British culture and its institutions may have been tested to destructionSun Oct 20 2019 - 16:07
Chris Johns: Why did Boris Johnson perform the mother of all Brexit U-turns?Logic and facts have an annoying habit of asserting themselves: perhaps the only surprise is that it took so longSun Oct 13 2019 - 13:29
Chris Johns: Donohoe is right not to go near income tax cutsBudget 2020: a holding exercise framed by BrexitTue Oct 08 2019 - 14:14
No customs union means border posts are inevitableChris Johns: The absence of trust within the UK and between Britain and its partners is the most obvious Brexit narrativeSun Oct 06 2019 - 16:19
Chris Johns: Brexit and an election won’t solve the UK’s deteriorating public financesNone of possible outcomes of forthcoming election will resolve UK’s poor fiscal positionSun Sept 29 2019 - 13:28
Stiglitz criticism of Irish tax policy is ‘breathtakingly silly’Chris Johns: Ireland’s genius to notice US government policy not to tax their global corporationsSun Sept 22 2019 - 12:58
Chris Johns: Tech monopolies are getting away with financial murderPiketty’s call for more aggressive redistribution may finally be answered by politiciansSun Sept 15 2019 - 12:33
Johnson-Cummings are like a Theresa May tribute act in fast forwardChris Johns: I see an election in the next few months, with every likelihood of a Johnson victorySun Sept 08 2019 - 18:09
Chris Johns: Chance of union break-up about same as hard BrexitBank of England reveals link between Brexit uncertainty, investment and productivitySun Sept 01 2019 - 14:42
The economic storm clouds are gathering, and boy, are they darkChris Johns: Trump’s trade wars, Brexit, monetary and fiscal policy mistakes and climate change point to a very bumpy ride aheadSun Aug 25 2019 - 12:39
Chris Johns: UK facing a future as a failed state after BrexitHard Brexit on October 31st won’t be the end, merely the start of an even more chaotic phaseSun Aug 18 2019 - 11:45
Chris Johns: Could Irish mortgage interest rates go negative?A Danish bank is offering a 10-year mortgage bond which carries a negative rate of interestSun Aug 11 2019 - 13:33
Chris Johns: The tragic death of fiscal arithmetic in Brexit BritainHardcore Brexiteers know that the economic hit is coming and don’t careSun Aug 04 2019 - 11:55
Is our desire to own our own home about to falter?Chris Johns: Property is king but its primacy is a recent phenomenonSun Jul 21 2019 - 13:18
Chris Johns: Forget Facebook’s $5bn fine – taxing tech giants is the real storyTech giants can learn from fall of big investment banks and how they mistook super-normal profits as new normSun Jul 14 2019 - 12:26
Stressed out: the system is broken and needs a radical fixIt would help if we taught that the need for cash is not necessarily infiniteSun Jul 07 2019 - 13:18
How do you decide fiscal policy when faced with Brexit uncertainty?Chris Johns: framing a budget while pondering the existential question of Brexit might best be left to philosophersSun Jun 30 2019 - 14:52
Only the emergence of proper leadership can avert Brexit fiascoThe political imperative of never admitting a mistake is leading UK down a very dark pathSun Jun 23 2019 - 11:31
Chris Johns: Gathering global economic clouds no reason to forecast rainThe constant threat of war between Russia and the US didn’t derail the global economy – and didn’t happenSun Jun 16 2019 - 13:54
Chris Johns: British politicians could learn from Trump’s peculiar authenticityUnlike Trump, Tory leadership candidates say things they almost certainly don’t believeSun Jun 09 2019 - 12:54
Clouds gathering as Trump moves markets with tweetsTrade wars, slowing economic growth and uncertainty run the risk of recession in a US election yearSun Jun 02 2019 - 12:43
Chris Johns: No-deal Brexit now the most likely scenario following May’s departureA hard Brexit led by Boris Johnson as prime minister could lead to the break up of the UKSun May 26 2019 - 13:06
Chris Johns: Tory leadership contenders sacrifice principles at the altar of BrexitIs the prospect of Nigel Farage as future British prime minister any more fanciful than a Trump presidency?Sun May 19 2019 - 14:58
Chris Johns: Market capitalism is becoming a corporate Game of ThronesA system that is rigged to produce only a few winners is utterly unsustainableSun May 12 2019 - 13:42
