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David McwilliamsThe Irish Times |
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 in...
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 and...
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 a...
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 of...
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 the...
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 supply...
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 of...
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 were...
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...
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 than...
It’s not every morning I wake up thinking about Rembrandt’s dad, but the other day, amid much hand-wringing over radical politics, the image of...
The first casualty of a strike is the truth. With both the Aer Lingus pilots and the management spinning the story, it’s difficult to know who is...
The election results in Ireland delivered their own type of shock in the form of the return of the old guard. Expectations create political momentum....
We’ve just come through a blizzard of electioneering, with slogans and pithy descriptions of the Irish economy and society bandied about wholesale....
As midlife crises go, relearning French is probably not a particularly adventurous option, but four days into an intensive language course in the...
The British Museum in Bloomsbury is a most extraordinary place to spend a few hours. The treasures of antiquity on display from Egypt, Sumer and...
It’s a Mad Max meets Trainspotting scene. The market district of Ottawa, the beautiful capital of the world’s second-largest country, home to the...
In 1824, Nathan Rothschild was rich enough to personally bail out the Bank of England. By 1836, at the age of 56, the wealthiest man in the world died...
This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...
This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...
While not agreeing with the economics of it, I could see the politics behind Bertie Ahern’s housing-banking Celtic Tiger policy. Build loads of...
In 1943, Alice O’Connor created Howard Roark, the hero-protagonist of her best-selling and controversial book The Fountainhead. Alice O’Connor was...
In the final months of the second World War, the various victorious powers sketched out their vision for the devastated Germany. What would a postwar...
When people object to development, when they claim a right to light or lodge a judicial review to ascertain what the constitutionally acceptable...
The gothic cathedral of St Peter, perched on top of the walled citadel of Geneva’s old town, is completely devoid of ornamentation. No candles or...
The gothic cathedral of St Peter, perched on top of the walled citadel of Geneva’s old town, is completely devoid of ornamentation. No candles or...
It is easy to dismiss last week’s referendum result as an inconsequential one-off, based on an unimportant issue, foisted on the people by an...
Bitcoin is back in the news. The gyrations of its price are noteworthy because they create extreme excitement for its enthusiasts. These people...
RTÉ is going out of business. Businesses go bust all the time. Technology can blindside a legacy business, or bad management, but sometimes it’s...
Did you know that this year is the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Dart line? How time flies. In 1984, Irish GDP was €20 billion; today...
When you look around Ireland and take in the fiasco of the Children’s Hospital, the saga that is the Dublin Metro or the inability to provide...
This week the European Copernicus Climate Change Service revealed that the world just experienced the warmest January on record. The average...
In November 1942, Europe was in dire need of a bit of good news. It came from Egypt, where after three years of defeats, retreats, setbacks and Nazi...
By any reliable economic measure, Joe Biden should be strolling in the USA. The US economy posted more than 3 per cent growth in the final quarter of...
A battle between the past and the future is playing out in Dún Laoghaire. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which has done an amazing job at...
We all know that Ireland’s demographic history is one of the most unusual and tragic in Europe. The collapse of the population from the early 19th...
O’Connell School in Dublin 1 has produced its fair share of taoisigh, sports people and journalists, writers and poets, but maybe few are as...
I’m looking at one of the last original Gutenberg Bibles. It’s beautiful. There are only 48 left in the world and only 12 remaining on animal hide...
Last week, the column spoke about the possibility of a 2nd Irish Republic. The idea is that this Republic has run its course and, like the French did...
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