Boris Johnson doesn’t want to ‘get Brexit done’. He wants to keep Brexit going

To understand what is happening, let’s go right back to where money started

Real wages are falling, mortgage payments will rise and the era of low interest rates seems over

Traditional top-down hierarchy is losing out to the power of networks and sharing

Solution to housing crisis is to either cut population through mass emigration or build more homes

Our economy would grind to a halt within days without ready access to diesel

If they’re not leaving because of unemployment, then what is the push or pull?

Russia’s vast natural resources are the envy of its neighbours and the engine of its instability

If we were serious about solving housing inflation, we would be tackling land prices

End of the Soviet Union opened the door for the biggest heist in modern financial history

Vladimir Putin has personally given the sustainable energy sector its biggest shot in the arm for years

Trade will have as much bearing as tanks on Ukraine’s endgame, and the West’s hand is weak

Parts of Limerick – potentially a wonderful, liveable city – are literally falling down

We have to use taxes and spending, both blunt and politically toxic instruments

Make buses, trains and trams free – and revolutionise Irish transport

‘What worries moralists about the future are the very things that are exciting investors’

The Irish economy – like its people – is multifaceted, shape-shifting and inconsistent

The history of private money isn’t too sparkling, so why would it be any different now?

Brexit, Merkel’s departure and a changing China among issues that may affect State

The president’s social-spending deal might yet be made but the political difficulties cannot be overstated

Vibrant cities need live venues and fewer restrictions on who can sell alcohol

When a builder sounds like the IMF, inflation is definitely here. It could be no bad thing

Housing NGOs could work with builders to identify refurbishment opportunities

After generations of playing second fiddle to English divisions, Irish football is looking up

Need to increase housing supply outweighs any Nimby complaints about developments

One massive shock can knock banking Ponzi-scheme off course, Lebanon has had five

Climate budgets in city of Oslo offer an environmental template that Ireland could follow

One worked with nature, the other thought they could bend the earth to their will

World of work is undergoing huge change as pandemic causes us to reassess our lives

With an ideal climate for renewable energy generation, we could become a net exporter

We should improve Ireland’s commercial DNA using multinationals’ taxation

Now is not the time for agonising about budgets; it is time to do the things that we should have done years ago

There are 90 million empty apartments in China after years of a construction boom

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

Twitter is filled with angry graduates whose high expectations have not been met

Housing For All could be seminal moment for Government where people finally come first

Fourth industrial revolution plunges jobs and education into a new world of potential

British people in northeast could run own affairs in hyper-devolved Irish federation

In same way oil transformed Gulf States, wind, wave and tidal energy could transform Ireland

We need to be thinking about the right thing to do for Ireland 2060, not Ireland 2021

We’re at the Instagram phase of recovery – spending on things we want to tell the world about

Falling populations in Europe, America and Asia will make Africa an economic superpower

The retailer’s name is over the gate of a car park that’s limiting city centre pedestrianisation

Our globalised economy is fuelled by multinationals and this makes us much better-off

Nphet and the hospitality industry are vying for the ear of the Government

Industrial Germany is a carbon addict, and the CDU is wedded to the carbon economy that has served Germany so well for 50 years

Housing has created a division between property-owning ‘insiders’ and locked-out ‘outsiders’

Why I love where I live, by Róisín Ingle, David McWilliams, Jennifer O’Connell and more

Will Ireland’s middle class vote for a party that promises to build homes for their children?

Landlords will bring idle land into use pronto if they face a big cost such as tax

State's challenge is project management, not fiscal constraint. Bank largesse is way ahead

Metrics we use to fix this problem need to be based on politics of preparation, not of outrage

A proper living city provides home for people of all income levels and backgrounds

Bond market can make us good ancestors by fixing the problem with long-term lending

The more we object to development, the more house prices will rise

Agenda of unlikely radical Biden is to give economy back to the man on the street

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

Those with money shape society. An economy where women earn more will be different

Emigration to the UK in the 1950s and 1960s may have saved our fragile health service far more than lengthy lockdown

If the ECB re-establishes the old rules post-pandemic, a eurozone crisis will ensue

The Davy affair reveals how much money is sloshing around for people who don’t innovate

Other countries have put the welfare of citizens first and secured alternative vaccines

State has had the most stringent lockdown and will have the most effervescent upswing

We can undertake a social experiment no one thought possible before the pandemic

The housing units we plan to build will not be enough, not by half

The city needs to change from a shopping and work entrepot to a living, artisanal centre

Ireland’s model of 'rentier capitalism' is stacked against the younger generation

The company that made boots for punks and skins is floating on London’s stock exchange

The white working class is slipping down the US and global pecking order

Ireland could be in for a manufacturing renaissance in the coming decade

2020 in review: From how we think about money to the working week, some lessons will stick with us

As its share price neared $140, I was reminded of the ‘canal mania’ of the late 1700s

DUP’s Brexit manoeuvring has done more to undermine the Union than Sinn Féin

All-island infrastructure hasn’t been considered for 100 years. Too long

Urban car parks will soon be like suburban churches: empty relics of a bygone era

Surprising amount of urban economy depends on maligned business traveller

Vaccine, low rates and madness of King Boris have changed our economic outlook

Current alarm rightly focuses on youth, but there is another long-term structural problem

Government should aid small businesses directly to help prevent bankruptcies

A meaningful dereliction tax would change the game further, and for the better

This lamentable situation could end if State-owned AIB offered loans at the ECB rate

Rather than vilify them, let’s nurture them and invest in them now while we can

Bluntly, there will be no economic momentum as long as we have lockdowns

This could be the beginning of the end of the UK as the centre now struggles to hold

Investment that might have gone to the UK can come here. Our job is to manage it

The Germans have been boxed in by Italy. Fiscal policy has become monetary policy

We are in a classic ‘liquidity trap’, and lowering interest rates won’t get us out of it

Medically, Ireland is to continue with the lockdown strategy, so what is our economic plan?

Employees who work from home will set the rent agenda and change the face of our cities

Derry Credit Union gave the city’s downtrodden the power to imagine a better future

Whatever the obstacles to social change in modern Ireland, money is not one

In a pandemic, unlike a recession, spending is constrained not by income but by fear

Tax is not just about raising revenue, it is a legitimate part of our economic arsenal

Income in the ‘Craic Economy’ – composed of bars, clubs and festivals – has dropped to zero

It’s businesses, not governments, that create jobs. So politicians should stop promising them

Europe’s most conservative institution is – rightly – ripping up its own rule book

Ireland is experiencing a generational divide both politically and economically

Coronavirus pandemic gives us the opportunity to think big and reimagine the country

Ireland today is utterly different. Comparisons with the 1980s are lazy and inaccurate

The solution to financial woes brought about by Covid-19 is obvious. It is called Japan