David McWilliams: Ireland is facing a golden opportunity for its economyVaccine, low rates and madness of King Boris have changed our economic outlookSat Nov 14 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Middle-aged unemployment is Ireland’s new growth areaCurrent alarm rightly focuses on youth, but there is another long-term structural problemSat Nov 07 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A plan to put Ireland’s 200,000 vacant buildings to useDuring the most acute housing crisis we have faced, close to 15% of properties are vacantSat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Lockdown decision makers still get paid. Those they shut down do notGovernment should aid small businesses directly to help prevent bankruptciesSat Oct 24 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The rules of the property game have changedA meaningful dereliction tax would change the game further, and for the betterSat Oct 17 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why an Irish mortgage costs €80k more than a German oneThis lamentable situation could end if State-owned AIB offered loans at the ECB rateSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The young people partying in Galway are our futureRather than vilify them, let’s nurture them and invest in them now while we canSat Oct 03 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The better the economy does, the more Covid-19 spreadsBluntly, there will be no economic momentum as long as we have lockdownsSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Johnson’s UK and Milosevic’s Yugoslavia – spot the differenceThis could be the beginning of the end of the UK as the centre now struggles to holdSat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The UK’s economic illiteracy is Ireland’s opportunityInvestment that might have gone to the UK can come here. Our job is to manage itSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Italy has done us a huge favour by defeating Germany on monetary policyThe Germans have been boxed in by Italy. Fiscal policy has become monetary policySat Sept 05 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Nobody’s lending. Nobody’s borrowing. Here’s what to doWe are in a classic ‘liquidity trap’, and lowering interest rates won’t get us out of itSat Aug 29 2020 - 08:54
David McWilliams: There is a vaccine to immunise the economy. It’s the bond marketMedically, Ireland is to continue with the lockdown strategy, so what is our economic plan?Sat Aug 22 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: It is time for a major property resetEmployees who work from home will set the rent agenda and change the face of our citiesSat Aug 15 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: John Hume understood the power of creditDerry Credit Union gave the city’s downtrodden the power to imagine a better futureSat Aug 08 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The State can finance everything for nothing – if it wants toWhatever the obstacles to social change in modern Ireland, money is not oneSat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: How Covid-19 could change Lahinch and Ranelagh for the betterIn a pandemic, unlike a recession, spending is constrained not by income but by fearSat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Apple decision shows Ireland is not a tax havenTax is not just about raising revenue, it is a legitimate part of our economic arsenalSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The Pandession is destroying Ireland’s Craic EconomyIncome in the ‘Craic Economy’ – composed of bars, clubs and festivals – has dropped to zeroSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Governments can't 'create' jobs, so why do they keep pontificating about it?It’s businesses, not governments, that create jobs. So politicians should stop promising themSat Jul 04 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: ‘Do whatever it takes to cushion the blow of Covid-19’Europe’s most conservative institution is – rightly – ripping up its own rule bookSat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The programme for government will leave young people behindIreland is experiencing a generational divide both politically and economicallySat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: It’s time for a new Irish economic modelCoronavirus pandemic gives us the opportunity to think big and reimagine the countrySat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We won't have another 1980s-style recessionIreland today is utterly different. Comparisons with the 1980s are lazy and inaccurateSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ignore the austerity ‘jihadis’. Here’s an alternative economic strategyThe solution to financial woes brought about by Covid-19 is obvious. It is called JapanSat May 30 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Beware Paschal Donohoe’s conventional thinkingSaving the economy today, to grow tomorrow, requires assertive macro-economic policySat May 23 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We are living through a ‘Pandession’ – here's how we escapeThere is an opportunity for Ireland in this unique 21st-century economic scenarioSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: When will the money run out in the Covid-19 pandemic?The money will not run out unless the Central Bank decides not to provide itSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: How to avoid an economic depressionThe new government must make saving small businesses its top prioritySat May 02 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Health crisis has now become a wealth crisisSolving the economic crisis we find ourselves in due to Covid-19 is actually quite simpleSat Apr 25 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Here’s how we can avoid the predicted depressionThe Corona shut down is not normal. Therefore, economic policy has to be abnormalSat Apr 18 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We should reopen the youth economy firstRecovery and immunity rates are higher for young people. So release them firstSat Apr 11 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We must loosen up on financing pandemic spending nowIf the EU, ECB and all governments meet this economic crisis head on, Europe has a chanceSat Apr 04 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We need to totally reimagine economicsOur Central Bank has unforgivably abdicated in this crisis, precisely when it was neededSat Mar 28 2020 - 09:58
World will need new financial system after Covid-19We need to avoid putting current system back together with sticking plasterWed Mar 25 2020 - 01:27
David McWilliams: The most critical objective is to keep businesses afloatThe best way to keep people in jobs and buy time is to give all adults ‘helicopter money’Sat Mar 21 2020 - 01:00
David McWilliams: Why Central Bank must give everyone free money right nowIs such a move a one-off to tackle Covid-19 crisis? Yes. Can it be done? AbsolutelySat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The coronavirus loves shopping, hospitality and entertainmentChina has put the economy to sleep. The US is trying to shake it awake – with limited successSat Mar 07 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: ‘I’m all right Jack’ politics has fuelled the rise of Sinn FéinFine Gael and Fianna Fáil helped create Mary Lou McDonald’s electoral juggernautFri Feb 28 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Germany needs a new business modelGermany may be about to enter a convulsive period economically, socially and politicallySat Feb 22 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Which coalition contenders are most economically compatible?There is not much between the coalition candidates on policy – until it comes to taxSat Feb 15 2020 - 13:27
David McWilliams: You will be a victim of the coronavirusEconomic contagion spreads far more easily than physical illness in a globalised worldSat Feb 08 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Bonanzavirus has struck Ireland this election, and there is no antidoteThis virus is highly contagious, spreading rapidly from politician to politicianSat Feb 01 2020 - 06:00
Ireland’s housing crisis in five revealing graphsMore houses are being built, but not enough, while prices and rents are climbing too fastSun Jan 26 2020 - 05:00
David McWilliams: A fall in house prices should be our goalHome ownership was supposed to give people a stake in society. Today nothing is locking out and alienating our citizens moreSat Jan 25 2020 - 06:30
David McWilliams: Introduce a congestion charge and make public transport freeWhy can’t our politicians adopt two simple economic solutions to traffic chaos?Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The party that taxes land hoarding will get my voteThe general election will be a battle between the brickie and the bookkeeperSat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Eight global economic trends affecting IrelandBrexit, low growth and inequality could all have an impact as the Irish election loomsSat Jan 04 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Where is the slowdown experts warned us about?Year in Review: Forecasters underestimated the success of the Irish economy in 2019Sat Dec 28 2019 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Brexit and the economics of love/hateLove, trust and human connection are among the essentials of economicsSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:00
