Arguments for new wealth taxes simply don’t add upPoliticians and commentators who persist in calling for the introduction of wealth taxes are being disingenuousMon Feb 02 2015 - 01:00
Chris Johns: Beware those who simplify ECB’s quantitative easingAmid the bond-buying the furore, the release of key economic data was ignoredMon Jan 26 2015 - 01:00
Ireland has been given a tax cut and a painless devaluationOpinion: Swiss franc capitulation and oil price drop mean we are suddenly cheapMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
Is Lucinda Creighton’s business-friendly party really so different?‘Reboot Ireland’ must think that significant chunks of the Irish political spectrum are perhaps business-hostileMon Jan 12 2015 - 07:19
Chris Johns: State faces stark arithmetic over future of pensionsPension promises cannot be honoured when the ratio of pensioners to workers explodesMon Jan 05 2015 - 01:00
Euro zone risks a slump far more serious than Japan’s ‘lost decade’Japan is growing its GDP per head at levels approaching 2% a year but Europe’s GDP per head is still fallingMon Dec 22 2014 - 01:00
Timing an important aspect when considering growthGovernment should be congratulated for its courage and luck on bailout exit strategyMon Dec 15 2014 - 01:00
It’s unfashionable to say it but the economy may get a lot betterOpinion: Irish exporters to benefit from falls in oil pricesMon Dec 08 2014 - 01:00
Chris Johns: Forecasters gloomy, but oil price plunge benefits IrelandImpact of oil price collapse has potential to be massiveMon Dec 01 2014 - 01:00
Social media causes grave damage and must be regulatedBullying unacceptable at home or in school but fine on social media, writes Chris JohnsMon Nov 24 2014 - 01:00
Next crisis for banks could come via online innovatorsOpinion: legacy of financial crisis may be vulnerability to technological disruptionMon Nov 17 2014 - 01:00
Trichet letters show that some are more equal than othersInterests of weaker EU states will always come second to interests of the stronger onesMon Nov 10 2014 - 02:00
We need to boost credit demand and supply for SMEsAre low levels of lending to SMEs a reflection of limited demand for credit rather than lack of supply?Mon Nov 03 2014 - 01:00
US hypocritical in calls for Irish corporate tax reformAn astonishing number of US firms are incorporated in Delaware, despite having no business there. Why?Mon Oct 27 2014 - 01:00
State must work hard to break down the barriers that hamper firms doing businessInitiatives like the Common Travel Area agreement with the UK must make it easier to travel and do businessMon Oct 20 2014 - 15:01
Plucking the SME gooseThose who are self-employed or earning in excess of €70,000 are on their ownWed Oct 15 2014 - 13:06
Budget process not fit for purposeNoonan should abandon hoopla and tell it like it isMon Oct 13 2014 - 12:55
Focus on multinationals stacks the deck against SMEsIreland reveals its antipathy towards small business via the tax systemMon Oct 06 2014 - 10:58
‘High tax country’ debate is increasingly juvenilePartisan lobbying now dominates all discussionWed Oct 01 2014 - 17:19
What the banks could learn from crowdfundingWithout growth of SMEs, we will never get any serious jobs growthMon Sept 29 2014 - 01:00
Why we should jump first on corporate non-taxationOpinion: reputation-building is a slow process but pays dividends in the long termMon Sept 22 2014 - 01:00
Could Europe’s only working monetary union be about to split?It’s impossible to quantify, but some economists think that investment in Scotland has already been damagedTue Sept 16 2014 - 11:19
Can lessons really be learned from the collapse of Lehman Brothers?‘What-if’ thought experiments are fun for the protagonists but pretty useless for the rest of usTue Sept 09 2014 - 13:56
Potential for unintended consequences if Scots choose independenceOpinion: few investors have mulled what Scottish independence might meanFri Sept 05 2014 - 01:00
Dumbing down the education systemYou don’t need to be super smart to be a CEO, lawyer, accountant or government ministerTue Sept 02 2014 - 12:17
EU washing its hands of responsibility for growthFiscal fundamentalism a bankrupt policyFri Aug 29 2014 - 01:00
Austerity will hold sway until deepening crisis changes ECB’s mindIdeology brooks no argument, despite what the facts sayTue Aug 26 2014 - 12:12
German growth should prompt ECB into actionHow worried should we be about a slowdown in the German economy?Fri Aug 15 2014 - 01:00
We need economic policies, not policymakersNothing in economics to justify crude European fiscalism of todayFri Aug 15 2014 - 01:00
Debate on €2bn cuts might be drowned out in EuropeOur recovery outpaces that of other euro zone countries, but a wider risk remainsFri Aug 08 2014 - 01:04
Why do we want Piketty’s thesis to apply to Ireland so badly?The bigger debate is not over the numbers but his explanations of why inequality has evolvedTue Aug 05 2014 - 12:52
Signs of recovery are enough to excite even a central bankerPatrick Honohan has sounded an optimistic note on the economy – and with good reasonFri Aug 01 2014 - 01:00
Why Piketty’s inequality arguments don’t apply to IrelandPreconceived notions about income distribution don’t take into account the factsTue Jul 29 2014 - 13:01
Regional capital spending critical to nascent recoveryLack of appetite to bolster Europe’s frail recovery astonishingFri Jul 25 2014 - 01:10
Patience is a virtue when it comes to economic growth“Savers either have an irrational belief in what will happen next or a heroic cheerfulness that things will turn out OK”Tue Jul 22 2014 - 12:20
Visionaries needed for regeneration, not copycatsThis week we were told we need to copy the development experience of Canary WharfFri Jul 18 2014 - 08:23
Roaming charges are still ‘a rip off’Nonetheless Brussels bureaucrats should be commended for their stance against phone companiesTue Jul 15 2014 - 12:20
Taxing capital risks underinvestment in our futureOpinion: Thomas Piketty’s proposals could effectively abolish capitalismFri Jun 27 2014 - 01:00
Can Europe’s low growth and high unemployment go on forever?Many hedge funds have lost small fortunes betting on the inevitability of European changeTue Jun 24 2014 - 14:57
Our average earners have low tax burdenBudget 2015 is already attracting headlinesFri Jun 20 2014 - 10:46
Wanted: Inflation in GermanyIf all recessions have unique features, so do recoveriesFri Jun 13 2014 - 09:03
Is Bank of Ireland fairly valued at its current share price?Figuring out the true value of a bank is as much art as it is scienceTue Jun 10 2014 - 13:12
Backsliding on austerity would risk another crisisThe raspberry sents Brussels way might have given civil servants pause for thoughtFri Jun 06 2014 - 16:38
Another missed opportunity in the EU’s monetary messLack of proper euro government bond market is why euro experiment is a messFri Jun 06 2014 - 00:59
Piketty’s ever-increasing inequality is just another economic forecastFurore around French economist’s infamous book entrenches opinions on both sidesTue Jun 03 2014 - 13:36
We just don’t know what the rise of extremist parties means for usIn the UK, the debate over immigration is becoming nasty and underlies the rise of UkipFri May 30 2014 - 01:00
Let’s get rid of nationalistic noise and vote Canadians for the ECBOne size fits nobody at the European Central BankFri May 23 2014 - 01:06
There's a part of me that feels sorry for Patrick NearyEurope’s bank problems are more complex than may first appear - and instant experts are only adding to the problemTue May 20 2014 - 12:31
Continuing US and British recovery will benefit usChris Johns says growth has been positive for a year now and momentum is expected to continue, perhaps helped by that ECB easingFri May 16 2014 - 01:00
Government document littered with promises. But can they deliver?‘Construction 2020’ has plenty of aspirations but is short on detailThu May 15 2014 - 09:47
