” What Makes Germany Tick?”
Europe’s biggest economy, yet Germany remains a bit of a mystery. These days you are as likely to hear warnings about Germany’s industrial collapse, a…
Keynes VS Hayek
The two most influential and consequential economists of the 20th century find themselves part of the global battle of ideas in the 21st century. In t…
Economics in the Dock
Long regarded as all-knowing high priests whose models were akin to a religious creed laying out what we believed in, today the reputation of economis…
Led by Donkeys- The Big Con
In the past few years, more and more bits of government have been outsourced to the Big 4 consultancies. So much so that the government has been infan…
Spending Ireland’s Tax Bonanza
Ireland has lucked out! We have more money than we know what to do with it. The fiscal surpluses, stemming from huge corporation tax receipts, constit…
Being a Good Ancestor:
When Jonas Salk the man who discovered the cure for polio was asked why he never patented his wonder-drug in order to make his fortune, he replied tha…
What did Globalisation Ever do for us?
You heard the Monty Python’s “What did the Romans ever do for us” sketch, well, as anti-globalisation protests unify both far Left and far Right, we a…
Big Tech V the Nation State
Who runs the world, Big Tech or elected government? Who wins, data or democracy? We are moving from private capital to surveillance capitalism, where …
Irish Property Up, Down, Sideways
It’s Groundhog Day again…or is it? The rental sector in Ireland has collapsed to a level where houses to let, in Dublin in particular, regularly have …
The Age of the Strongman
Putin’s soldiers are getting their arses handed to them in Ukraine. Trump’s fortunes are flagging. Even the inauguration of President Xi seems like th…