David McWilliams: Why 2018 was such a strong year for the Irish economyIt wasn't perfect, but the past 12 months saw incomes exceed their pre-crash peakSat Dec 29 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: How immigrants helped generate an economic miracle in Australia‘Lucky Country’ can thank new arrivals, common-sense policy and luck for its expansionSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: France's unrest shows the limits of economicsIt is hard to see, from a purely economic perspective, where French anger comes fromSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: It is time for a new deal with the multinationalsWe could give windfalls from international firms to young entrepreneursSat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Sanders is building a new political movement and could run againBuilding a broad coalition against Donald Trump means convincing working, blue-collar AmericansSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why stock in Facebook, Apple and Google has fallenThe Faangs – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google – have lost $1 trillion in valueSat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Brexit provides Ireland with a commercial opportunityBrexit is an act of aggression against globalisation and investors won’t forget thatSat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Want to find the cause of the housing crisis? Look in the mirrorIndividuals opposing planning applications drive up house prices and make land scarceSat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Dublin generates 56% of Irish tax, but can’t keep a cent of itCapital Ideas: We should issue ‘Dublin municipal bonds’ – it works for other citiesSat Nov 03 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We have witnessed the Dún Laoghaire-isation of IrelandGoodbye ‘moving-statue Catholics’. Hello ‘bouncy-castle Catholics’ and economic growthSat Oct 27 2018 - 06:35
David McWilliams: Meet Sliotar Mom, Dad Bod and the StovelandersOur columnist has a new cast of characters, the inhabitants of post-recession IrelandSat Oct 27 2018 - 06:27
David McWilliams: Under the bonnet of Trump’s purring economic engineThe US economy seems to be ticking over nicely, but it’s fuelled by a near-$1tn deficitSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Conor McGregor knows the rules of winner-takes-all economicsHis postfight expression said it all. Being second best is next to worthless in the modern worldSat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why do we tax income instead of wealth?Budget 2019 is a political pageant that avoids true economic actionSat Oct 06 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why Ireland leads in tolerance towards immigrantsDespite the global political mood, we are becoming a more welcoming nationSat Sept 29 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why Ireland is economically superior to BritainBritain’s political centre – home of Blair and Thatcher – has been abandoned for the extremesSat Sept 22 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Dereliction is legalised vandalism for the property-owning classesTaxing vacant buildings and rewarding their renovation would breathe new life into our citiesSat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why millennials may kill the banking industryIf there’s one industry Irish 'Crash Kids' are itching to disrupt, it’s the banking businessSat Sept 08 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Dublin’s housing market not yet ripe for a crashWe are only at stage two of the seven-step boom-to-bust property market cycleSat Sept 01 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The past is a sexually repressed, tax-dodging, countryA social survey of Ireland in 1981 exposes an extraordinarily conservative citizenshipSat Aug 25 2018 - 15:26
David McWilliams: we may be on verge of a global financial crisisA rising dollar threatens emerging markets with huge debts incurred in the US currencySat Aug 18 2018 - 16:30
David McWilliams: The rise of the singleton has transformed IrelandThe reason for one of the biggest societal changes since the last pope’s visit has gone largely undocumentedSat Aug 11 2018 - 06:00
Africa Rising: US may be a powerful country, but it is on the declineFour of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world in 2017 were in AfricaSat Aug 04 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Seven rules of life to avoid a financial crisisTen years on from the global banking crisis, have we learned anything?Sat Jul 28 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: ‘F**k business’ Brexit could be a gift for IrelandTory civil war is set to offer Ireland an incalculable commercial opportunitySat Jul 21 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Croatia wins at football, loses in economics – the opposite of IrelandWhat Ireland has achieved economically and socially since Euro ’88 is phenomenalSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Don't worry, multinationals are not about to up sticksThe school greets all good news with a shrug of ‘ah yeah, but that’s only the multinationals’Sat Jul 07 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland needs to nourish its creative classIt is important t be aware of the link between economic wealth and toleranceSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why immigrants live in Navan, not StillorganSettlement patterns reflect house prices, planning and suburban developmentSat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Putin is no angel but he brought stability to RussiaQuite why westerners are perplexed by Vladimir Putin’s popularity is itself perplexingSat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: This time the overheating is differentDublin’s residential property market is now part of a global businessSat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why Italy had to say goodbye to the dolce vitaItalian industry has gone backwards since the country joined the euroSat Jun 02 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Our housing problem is an apartment problemBelfast’s skyline shows what Dublin needs to do: build upwards to keep rents downSat May 26 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Lurid gear and swanky bikes mark cycling as the new golfCycling, once a blue collar sport, is now the pursuit of choice for the professional classesSat May 19 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Highly paid bosses make us all feel smallThe head of Ireland’s largest listed company earns 267 times the average worker’s paySat May 12 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Grinds, an educational leg-up for €3,200 a yearSchool-leavers must not just go to university, they must go to the ‘best’ universitySat May 05 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Central Bank covering its backside on overheatingWatchdog is evangelical in its born-again vigilance but powerless over interest ratesSat Apr 28 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland badly needs a global education businessWhen multinationals consider moving here, the first thing they will research is schoolsSat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: D7 housing market is a key cultural frontline in the capitalPhibsboro accords to the iron rule of upwardly mobile Ireland: the law of 'ancient signalling'Sat Apr 14 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: There will be no relief for the squeezed middleHow can their income tax bills be cut if the costs of education and health are going up?Sat Apr 07 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The economics of driving a child to schoolOverprotected children have their capacity to meet failure and unpredictability stuntedSat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Dublin is squeezing out low-income workersCapital generates over half of Ireland’s tax income but high rents are killing diversitySat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: In Ireland, the old get richer and the young grow poorerInheriting wealth is not meritocratic, but in Ireland it’s still the quickest way to get richSat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Third-level education is yesterday’s ideaEducation is no longer about credentials. It’s about attitude and willingness to keep learningSat Mar 10 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Having a baby? You’re an economic clairvoyantA high birth rate may indicate that the economy is going to boom in the years aheadSat Mar 03 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland doesn’t need vulture fundsBad loans should be sold to credit unions, not to pawnbrokers in PradaSat Feb 24 2018 - 06:30
David McWilliams: Blue-collar America has lost controlEnemy of working man is not Donald Trump, it is the professional aristocracySat Feb 17 2018 - 06:30
David McWilliams: Dublin Port is a waste of space. Move itOne solution to the housing crisis? Move the port and build a new kind of capital citySat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
David McWilliams: If you want to work smarter, quit your smartphoneWithout the distractions of the ‘attention economy’, I can focus and be more creativeSat Feb 03 2018 - 06:30
David McWilliams: Rising house prices suit too many peopleThe latest help-to-buy scheme will do the opposite of what it’s supposed to achieveSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
