Obama's stimulus package has paid dividends, but what now for the rest of us?

Our new working paper is out in the Levy working paper series: We examine the relationship between changes in a […]

Nerdgasms happen when nerds become suddenly quite excited. Nerds are people with deep interests in sometimes quite abstract areas. Nerds […]

We’ve all been here before. The government has more cash coming in than it had expected. There is an election […]

Pharmaceutical companies are in the business of finding cures for things that ail us. Last week, Pfizer and Allergan found […]

We've updated the paper, it can be accessed here. The abstract is below. The global financial crisis has forced standard […]

PICTURE this. It is 3am on the 12th of July, 1972. 43 years ago. The gardens of the Benedictine Monastery […]

Let’s call terrorism what it really is: political violence. Terrorism as a concept only became widespread in the 1960s – […]

If Britain does vote to leave the European Union, the biggest losers will be the 4.68 million Paddies living a […]

We all know the story of the prodigal son. The young chap hits the road after cashing out his share […]

I keep worrying about our fiscal sandcastles. Since the 1950s we have built these sandcastles, until something comes along, usually […]

Tip 1 We’ve heard almost nothing about it, but the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is important for Ireland […]

Let’s draw up a list of the groups most likely to vote en masse in the next election. Homeowners, private […]

Budget day. It’s like Christmas, but designed by drunken, bitter economists. The ministers will come into the Dáil with their […]