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David McwilliamsThe Irish Times |
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...
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...
As the year comes to a close, a few standout events and trends show the Irish economy is on a profoundly different growth track to that of our...
Why is the Irish economy growing faster than any country in Europe and why has that been the case for almost a quarter of a century? I thought...
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....
Some people, perhaps those not so well versed in macroeconomics, perceive giveaway budgets and political auctions as signs of strength, reflective...
Just say no! The political party that is honest with the population and rediscovers the ability to say no might be rewarded by the adult population...
A few years ago this column argued that we should see significant political events through a very long-term lens that could be termed the economic...
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...
When it comes to business, one of the best descriptions of the Irish I have ever heard is that we prefer to be liked rather than feared. Affable,...
The only people doing great business in Dublin’s north inner city these days are the fellas selling metal shopfront shutters. Dublin, particularly...
In the 1990s, when the Oslo peace process was in its incipient optimistic phase, I was the Israel economist for the large Swiss bank, UBS....
From the very beginning energy has been central to human existence. Economists will tell you that mastery of a new technology has always conferred...
In terms of a small inner city neighbourhood there can be few potentially prettier places than Shandon on the north side of Cork city. A patchwork...
There can be few more beautiful places than the west of Ireland experiencing an Indian summer. On Thursday morning, when the sun burned through the...
In London on Thursday night I was chatting to a number of prominent British financial journalists. The Apple/Irish decision was, of course, top of...
Maybe it is just me, but I find people showing me their phone’s photos, capturing some cherished moment or other, extremely tedious. Blurry videos...
From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but...
The other night in Croatia I was chatting to a young man from the northern Serbian town of Subotica. Like so much of the region, Subotica is a town...
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...
When I was a teenager, a friend’s south Dublin mother, in a one-stop effort to rank this unfamiliar young lad, on hearing my name asked: “Is that...
Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, an eminent economics professor at prestigious Stanford University in California, was described by the...
This column has spoken before of the “10 million mindset”. The idea is that the population of the island is moving towards 10 million by the end of...
London on the night of an England game is always a bit tense. The pubs are overflowing, Three Lions is being roared out of key by lads with more...