Good news is hitting the government like a man in a safari suit getting slapped in the face with a […]

Nobody likes paying taxes. We hate income taxes such as the USC. We loathe consumption taxes like Vat. We truly […]

World economic growth is slowing. The 3.3 per cent world growth projected by the IMF for 2015 is now only […]

We like to feel that we’re special, that in Ireland things run differently because we aren’t like other countries. We’re […]

Markets are forward-looking. There are three sides to the ‘markets’ story. There are savers, investors and middlemen, who make their […]

Drs Aedin Doris, Kevin Denny and I wrote a response to the consultation paper on the review of leaving cert […]

Welcome back to UL for the autumn semester! If you're studying EC4004, Economics for Business, the module outline, notes, and […]

I see headlines talking about ‘market turmoil’, that China’s heading for a meltdown and apparently I should care about the […]

Using the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption (HFCS) data, this paper identifies the key differences in borrowing behaviour between core […]

The Chinese economy is weakening. Industrial production is falling. China’s exports fell by 8.9 per cent, year on year in […]

It’s not every day you lose almost ten billion euro. I’d call Thursday a bad day for Argentina’s national debt […]

The National Asset Management Agency exists to destroy itself. That’s a funny job to have. Nama was set up in […]

Ireland’s banks. We don’t like them. They’ve cost us a fortune. Given how much they’ve cost us, we want them […]

Sir, I read with interest Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn’s assertion (“Why Greece Should Leave theEurozone”, July 24, 2015) that Ireland’s austerity […]

I wrote a short piece on how one might make a bit of dosh in a low growth environment for […]