The Suez crisis was the end of the road for Britain as a global rule-maker. The US is setting itself up for a repeat

By capitulating and throwing money at the problem, the Government has set itself up for a repeat performance, as Ireland’s EU presidency looms

There is no cost control. And no one seems to care about what we are getting for all this spending

Voters wary as Mary Lou McDonald’s party beats all-or-nothing, Marxist drum on housing

Ireland remains highly dependent on fossil fuels despite experiencing previous oil crises

The people we call entrepreneurs are the ones who make the economy dance. Without them, there’s no products, sales or demand for workers

If the Chinese juggernaut continues to make things better than Europeans, what is there for Europe to make?

We are fixated on tech and AI, but forget how the economy is mostly still heavy, dirty and smelly

Ireland is dangerously overdependent on a small number of companies for far too much revenue

As Clare and Tipperary people know, Ireland has become a country of sprawl, of suburbs creeping into countryside and towns and villages choked with traffic

Economies grow when banks lend money, but ours have become glorified safe deposit boxes

Bitcoin promoters sometimes portray price spikes as evidence it is money - in fact the opposite is true

Concentration of global risk in one country – the US – is a source of enormous jeopardy

Donald Trump may have made a U-turn on Greenland, but the rupture between Europe and the US is permanent

Although it might seem arcane, issuing criminal proceedings against the head of the Federal Reserve is a huge move of global significance