Crosswords & Puzzles
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Houses are being built in Ireland, so why can’t ordinary people buy them?
Prices are rising because the biggest buyer in the market is pushing them up. Who will benefit?
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
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