Despite people’s perceptions, violent crime has rarely been lower in Ireland, but a rise in crimes made viral by social media ...

Yimbyism: in North America, families taking the housing crisis into their own hands and building in their gardens, so why not ...

Never in their wildest dreams could crypto backers have imagined the US president promoting a token that sought to undermine ...

Take the biggest issue facing Ireland right now – the housing market. With data and the right model of what drives house prices in real life, we can set policy that is likely to succeed. If the ...

The dilapidated state of our cities and towns is an embarrassment. The sight of such urban vandalism should make us wince. With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

At the start of the week there was a fear, not unreasonable, that tariffs might be applied to individual countries based on their specific trade surplus with the United States – a measure, in Trump’s ...

Leaving Cert economics tells you what happens when demand soars and supply falters – prices go up and queues form, ultimately leading to stagflation, a scenario where prices go up while the economy ...

We are heading into a trade war. That’s what the United States wants and that’s what the world will get. In 2025 it will become increasingly obvious that you can’t have a trade war without a capital ...

Economists, when talking about immigration, often blandly refer to “workers” or “talent”, but immigrants are people who expect services on a par with the citizens beside whom they are working in bars, ...

Let’s talk about the message, who gets to tell the story, who constructs the narrative and who frames the debate. The reason I’m ending the year with this column on who tells the story is, maybe like ...

There’s nothing we can do about Donald Trump’s mercantilist economics but there are plenty of things we can control within the domestic economy – and this crisis is too good an opportunity to miss.