Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

The second-hand market is heating up, a classic pre-recession indicator. People are unloading luxury goods. Second-hand clothes apps, such as RealReal, Depop and Grailed, are filling up with designer ...

Our trade surplus with the US is about $50 billion (€45 billion), or $73 billion of exports less $23 billion of imports. If you divide by our five-odd million population, this implies a trade surplus ...

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 Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

Top of the pile is, of course, Dublin’s MetroLink, which has been in the proverbial pipeline for years. The latest cost estimate for the project sits at €9.5 billion, which would eat up a large chunk ...

After all, the objective of economic prosperity is to improve the day-to-day life of the citizen. That’s the name of the game. This means dramatic changes to planning and financing of homes, plus an ...

It has changed because the message has changed. Or at least those who created the story have changed. When I was younger, there were five or maybe six messengers in Ireland – the main newspapers, ...

Although it is particularly egregious, the canal episode isn‘t an isolated incident. GeoDirectory, the data company used by An Post, has estimated that 14,500 residential and commercial properties lie ...

We are heading into a trade war. That’s what the United States wants and that’s what the world will get. In 2025 it will become increasingly obvious that you can’t have a trade war without a capital ...

These are only two examples of how our legal framework allows for objections on a wide variety of grounds – ranging from procedural missteps to environmental concerns – which can easily lead to ...

Demography is destiny. The single most important statistic in any developed economy is the population size. When planning for the future, the most critical forecast concerns the number of people in ...