David McWilliams

David McWilliams

Contributor

David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.

The more US tax money we get, the more dysfunctional the Irish economy becomes

Apart from the Apple tax money, Ireland collected a total of €28.1bn in corporation tax receipts last year

Ireland’s massive problem with ‘in-your-face’ crime is feeding fear

Despite people’s perceptions, violent crime has rarely been lower in Ireland, but a rise in ‘in-your-face’ crimes made viral by social media is feeding our fear

An answer to Ireland’s housing crisis is right behind us

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

A lesson from The Godfather as Wall Street backs crypto assets it once dismissed as a ‘fraud’

Bitcoin is backed by nothing except hype but early adopters made vast wealth. Now they want to protect their own interests

This is what we need to do in Ireland if we want stable, affordable house prices

An honest discussion on population, underpinned by data, not emotion, is the only sensible way forward

Ireland needs immigrants. But our economy can’t accommodate an infinite number

Ireland has a management problem as well as a demographic dilemma

How Silicon Valley became the new Tír na nÓg

Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?

What’s stopping us converting Dublin’s O’Connell St into a residential neighbourhood?

Incentives to developers do work. Take the example of Parliament Street, in the heart of the city

Why is Donald Trump messing with America’s most potent weapon?

United States president Donald Trump is undermining the world’s reserve currency: the US dollar

The Baltics are rapidly becoming a cauldron of EU growth when other parts of Europe are stagnating

Economically, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are by far the most successful of post-Soviet Republics

Ireland’s extraordinary education revolution laid bare by two new reports

New research published by OECD shows poorer students in Ireland more likely than ever before to finish college and better their lives

There are signs of overheating everywhere you look in Ireland’s economy

As the country goes full throttle and rents hit all-time highs, it’s clear the economy is overheating. It may be time to chill

Property dereliction is antisocial behaviour perpetrated by the rich

David McWilliams: Hoarded houses are falling down in front of our eyes while a housing crisis rumbles on

Africa mines the material, China makes the products, Ireland gets rich

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, the world is abandoning globalisation. How’s this going for Africa? Not great, to be honest

Trump has managed to create something world has never seen: virulent Canadian nationalism

Now Canada election campaign is over, how does Carney – a brilliant economic mind – negotiate from here?

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