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 ...

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 ...

We are about to be “tariffed” and this will have a significant impact on Ireland’s economic model, entirely based as it is on open, free and ubiquitous trade, the more the better. There’s nothing we ...

Once you start looking, the signs of an American recession are everywhere. The second-hand market is heating up, a classic pre-recession indicator. People are unloading luxury goods. Second-hand ...

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 With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

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, ...

Now that the election is out of the way, it’s time to get serious about housing. Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to. Otherwise there will never be real social ...

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 ...