- Opinion
- May 21, 2022, 06:00
Boris Johnson doesn’t want to ‘get Brexit done’. He wants to keep Brexit going
- Opinion
- May 14, 2022, 06:00
To understand what is happening, let’s go right back to where money started
- Opinion
- May 7, 2022, 06:00
Real wages are falling, mortgage payments will rise and the era of low interest rates seems over
- Opinion
- April 30, 2022, 06:00
Traditional top-down hierarchy is losing out to the power of networks and sharing
- Opinion
- April 23, 2022, 06:00
Solution to housing crisis is to either cut population through mass emigration or build more homes
- Opinion
- April 9, 2022, 06:00
Our economy would grind to a halt within days without ready access to diesel
- Opinion
- April 2, 2022, 06:00
If they’re not leaving because of unemployment, then what is the push or pull?
- Opinion
- March 26, 2022, 06:00
Russia’s vast natural resources are the envy of its neighbours and the engine of its instability
- Opinion
- March 19, 2022, 06:00
If we were serious about solving housing inflation, we would be tackling land prices
- Opinion
- March 12, 2022, 06:00
End of the Soviet Union opened the door for the biggest heist in modern financial history
- Opinion
- March 5, 2022, 06:00
Vladimir Putin has personally given the sustainable energy sector its biggest shot in the arm for years
- Opinion
- February 26, 2022, 06:00
Trade will have as much bearing as tanks on Ukraine’s endgame, and the West’s hand is weak
- Opinion
- February 12, 2022, 06:00
Parts of Limerick – potentially a wonderful, liveable city – are literally falling down
- Opinion
- February 5, 2022, 06:00
We have to use taxes and spending, both blunt and politically toxic instruments
- Opinion
- January 29, 2022, 06:05
Make buses, trains and trams free – and revolutionise Irish transport
- Opinion
- January 22, 2022, 06:00
‘What worries moralists about the future are the very things that are exciting investors’
- Opinion
- January 15, 2022, 06:00
The Irish economy – like its people – is multifaceted, shape-shifting and inconsistent
- Opinion
- January 8, 2022, 06:00
The history of private money isn’t too sparkling, so why would it be any different now?
- Opinion
- January 1, 2022, 06:00
Brexit, Merkel’s departure and a changing China among issues that may affect State
- Opinion
- December 24, 2021, 06:00
The president’s social-spending deal might yet be made but the political difficulties cannot be overstated
- Opinion
- December 18, 2021, 06:00
Vibrant cities need live venues and fewer restrictions on who can sell alcohol
- Opinion
- December 11, 2021, 03:00
When a builder sounds like the IMF, inflation is definitely here. It could be no bad thing
- Opinion
- December 4, 2021, 06:00
Housing NGOs could work with builders to identify refurbishment opportunities
- Opinion
- November 27, 2021, 06:00
After generations of playing second fiddle to English divisions, Irish football is looking up
- Opinion
- November 20, 2021, 00:00
Need to increase housing supply outweighs any Nimby complaints about developments
- Opinion
- November 13, 2021, 06:00
One massive shock can knock banking Ponzi-scheme off course, Lebanon has had five
- Opinion
- November 6, 2021, 06:00
Climate budgets in city of Oslo offer an environmental template that Ireland could follow
- Opinion
- October 30, 2021, 06:00
One worked with nature, the other thought they could bend the earth to their will
- Opinion
- October 23, 2021, 06:00
World of work is undergoing huge change as pandemic causes us to reassess our lives
- Opinion
- October 16, 2021, 06:00
With an ideal climate for renewable energy generation, we could become a net exporter
- Opinion
- October 9, 2021, 06:00
We should improve Ireland’s commercial DNA using multinationals’ taxation
- Opinion
- October 2, 2021, 06:00
Now is not the time for agonising about budgets; it is time to do the things that we should have done years ago
- Opinion
- September 25, 2021, 06:00
There are 90 million empty apartments in China after years of a construction boom
- Opinion
- September 18, 2021, 06:00
When it comes to land flipping the sucker is the taxpayer – land prices have soared with the stroke of a pen and at your expense
- Opinion
- September 11, 2021, 06:00
Twitter is filled with angry graduates whose high expectations have not been met
- Opinion
- September 4, 2021, 06:00
Housing For All could be seminal moment for Government where people finally come first
- Opinion
- August 28, 2021, 06:00
Fourth industrial revolution plunges jobs and education into a new world of potential
- Opinion
- August 21, 2021, 06:00
British people in northeast could run own affairs in hyper-devolved Irish federation
- Opinion
- August 14, 2021, 06:00
In same way oil transformed Gulf States, wind, wave and tidal energy could transform Ireland
- Opinion
- August 7, 2021, 06:00
We need to be thinking about the right thing to do for Ireland 2060, not Ireland 2021
- People
- July 31, 2021, 06:00
We’re at the Instagram phase of recovery – spending on things we want to tell the world about
- Opinion
- July 24, 2021, 06:00
Falling populations in Europe, America and Asia will make Africa an economic superpower
- Opinion
- July 17, 2021, 06:00
The retailer’s name is over the gate of a car park that’s limiting city centre pedestrianisation
- Opinion
- July 10, 2021, 06:00
Our globalised economy is fuelled by multinationals and this makes us much better-off
- Opinion
- July 3, 2021, 06:00
Nphet and the hospitality industry are vying for the ear of the Government
- Opinion
- June 26, 2021, 06:00
Industrial Germany is a carbon addict, and the CDU is wedded to the carbon economy that has served Germany so well for 50 years
- Opinion
- June 19, 2021, 06:00
Housing has created a division between property-owning ‘insiders’ and locked-out ‘outsiders’
- Life & Style
- June 13, 2021, 06:00
Why I love where I live, by Róisín Ingle, David McWilliams, Jennifer O’Connell and more
- Opinion
- June 12, 2021, 06:00
Will Ireland’s middle class vote for a party that promises to build homes for their children?
- Opinion
- June 5, 2021, 06:00
Landlords will bring idle land into use pronto if they face a big cost such as tax
- Opinion
- May 29, 2021, 06:00
State's challenge is project management, not fiscal constraint. Bank largesse is way ahead
- Opinion
- May 22, 2021, 06:00
Metrics we use to fix this problem need to be based on politics of preparation, not of outrage
- Opinion
- May 15, 2021, 06:00
A proper living city provides home for people of all income levels and backgrounds
- Opinion
- May 8, 2021, 06:00
Bond market can make us good ancestors by fixing the problem with long-term lending
- Opinion
- May 1, 2021, 06:00
The more we object to development, the more house prices will rise
- Opinion
- April 24, 2021, 06:00
Agenda of unlikely radical Biden is to give economy back to the man on the street
- Opinion
- April 17, 2021, 06:00
Between Biden’s sanctions and the build-up of Russian forces in the Ukraine, the US and Russia will need to sit down together soon
- Opinion
- April 10, 2021, 06:00
Those with money shape society. An economy where women earn more will be different
- Opinion
- April 3, 2021, 06:00
Emigration to the UK in the 1950s and 1960s may have saved our fragile health service far more than lengthy lockdown
- Opinion
- March 20, 2021, 06:00
If the ECB re-establishes the old rules post-pandemic, a eurozone crisis will ensue
- Opinion
- March 13, 2021, 06:00
The Davy affair reveals how much money is sloshing around for people who don’t innovate
- Opinion
- March 6, 2021, 06:00
Other countries have put the welfare of citizens first and secured alternative vaccines
- Opinion
- February 27, 2021, 06:00
State has had the most stringent lockdown and will have the most effervescent upswing
- Opinion
- February 20, 2021, 06:00
We can undertake a social experiment no one thought possible before the pandemic
- Opinion
- February 13, 2021, 06:00
The housing units we plan to build will not be enough, not by half
- Opinion
- January 30, 2021, 06:00
The city needs to change from a shopping and work entrepot to a living, artisanal centre
- Opinion
- January 23, 2021, 06:00
Ireland’s model of 'rentier capitalism' is stacked against the younger generation
- Opinion
- January 16, 2021, 06:00
The company that made boots for punks and skins is floating on London’s stock exchange
- Opinion
- January 9, 2021, 06:00
The white working class is slipping down the US and global pecking order
- Opinion
- January 2, 2021, 06:00
Ireland could be in for a manufacturing renaissance in the coming decade
- Opinion
- December 26, 2020, 06:00
2020 in review: From how we think about money to the working week, some lessons will stick with us
- Opinion
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
As its share price neared $140, I was reminded of the ‘canal mania’ of the late 1700s
- Opinion
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
DUP’s Brexit manoeuvring has done more to undermine the Union than Sinn Féin
- Opinion
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
All-island infrastructure hasn’t been considered for 100 years. Too long
- Opinion
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
Urban car parks will soon be like suburban churches: empty relics of a bygone era
- Opinion
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
Surprising amount of urban economy depends on maligned business traveller
- Opinion
- November 14, 2020, 06:00
Vaccine, low rates and madness of King Boris have changed our economic outlook
- Opinion
- November 7, 2020, 06:00
Current alarm rightly focuses on youth, but there is another long-term structural problem
- Opinion
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
Government should aid small businesses directly to help prevent bankruptcies
- Opinion
- October 17, 2020, 06:00
A meaningful dereliction tax would change the game further, and for the better
- Opinion
- October 10, 2020, 06:00
This lamentable situation could end if State-owned AIB offered loans at the ECB rate
- Opinion
- October 3, 2020, 06:00
Rather than vilify them, let’s nurture them and invest in them now while we can
- Opinion
- September 26, 2020, 06:00
Bluntly, there will be no economic momentum as long as we have lockdowns
- Opinion
- September 19, 2020, 06:00
This could be the beginning of the end of the UK as the centre now struggles to hold
- Opinion
- September 12, 2020, 06:00
Investment that might have gone to the UK can come here. Our job is to manage it
- Opinion
- September 5, 2020, 06:00
The Germans have been boxed in by Italy. Fiscal policy has become monetary policy
- Opinion
- August 29, 2020, 06:00
We are in a classic ‘liquidity trap’, and lowering interest rates won’t get us out of it
- Opinion
- August 22, 2020, 06:00
Medically, Ireland is to continue with the lockdown strategy, so what is our economic plan?
- Opinion
- August 15, 2020, 06:00
Employees who work from home will set the rent agenda and change the face of our cities
- Opinion
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Derry Credit Union gave the city’s downtrodden the power to imagine a better future
- Opinion
- August 1, 2020, 06:00
Whatever the obstacles to social change in modern Ireland, money is not one
- Opinion
- July 25, 2020, 06:00
In a pandemic, unlike a recession, spending is constrained not by income but by fear
- Opinion
- July 18, 2020, 06:00
Tax is not just about raising revenue, it is a legitimate part of our economic arsenal
- Opinion
- July 11, 2020, 06:00
Income in the ‘Craic Economy’ – composed of bars, clubs and festivals – has dropped to zero
- Opinion
- July 4, 2020, 06:00
It’s businesses, not governments, that create jobs. So politicians should stop promising them
- Opinion
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
Europe’s most conservative institution is – rightly – ripping up its own rule book
- Opinion
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Ireland is experiencing a generational divide both politically and economically
- Opinion
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
Coronavirus pandemic gives us the opportunity to think big and reimagine the country
- Opinion
- June 6, 2020, 06:00
Ireland today is utterly different. Comparisons with the 1980s are lazy and inaccurate
- Opinion
- May 30, 2020, 06:00
The solution to financial woes brought about by Covid-19 is obvious. It is called Japan