In the US, this large constituency voted in huge numbers for Donald Trump – but they also turned up in New York to vote for the anti-Trump, Zohran Mamdani. In Ireland, this group, “the working poor”, ...

Ireland is moving from a democracy to ‘vetocracy’, where governance is paralysed because someone, somewhere holds a veto ...

In 1992, I moved into a flat on Parliament Street in Dublin city centre. Back then, the four residents of the refurbished 18th-century building were the only people living on the street. Yes, you read ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

Demography is destiny. The single most important statistic in any developed economy is the population size. When planning for the future, the most critical forecast concerns the number of people in ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

The dysfunctional state of Ireland’s housing market was perfectly illustrated by the recent collapse of a derelict cottage on Dublin’s Grand Canal. As hard as it might be to believe, this property is ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

Cape Town is a cosmopolitan melting pot. A jumble of creeds, colours and languages, the city is a fusion where it’s impossible to define or establish what a true Capetonian “looks” like. A creation of ...

Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, an eminent economics professor at prestigious Stanford University in California, was described by the Stanford Daily in 1976 as “a Marxist scholar . . . too ...

Economies are on my mind: Australia, where I’m on a book tour; Argentina, which just voted again for Javier Milei’s party; and Ireland where we elected a president who could be described as hard-left.

In the 1998 movie The Horse Whisperer, Robert Redford is a man with a special ability to communicate with horses and, using a combination of emotional intelligence and body language, put them at ease, ...