Bonds: the greatest bull market of all time gets even frothierMany of us thought it would come to an end years ago but we’vee been humiliated by realityTue May 13 2014 - 12:57
Exposing the dark side of trading places: Flash Boys by Michael LewisReview: The proliferation of new stock exchanges has given rise to high-frequency trading, so-called because the average length of time that “investors” hold on to their shares is 11 secondsSat May 10 2014 - 01:00
Don’t bank on inquiry to deliver anything we don’t already knowThe way to stop banks from misbehaving is clear but still no action is being takenFri May 09 2014 - 01:00
Revealed: the great Irish bail-inIreland has regularly inflated past debt problems awayTue May 06 2014 - 13:26
The recession may be over but this might be about as good as it getsHigh debt levels and the prospect of future tax rises are enough to keep anybody out of the shopsTue Apr 29 2014 - 13:10
The rise of the robots may have arrived alreadyCheap technology is turning our economies upside down, in ways that we cannot measureFri Apr 25 2014 - 01:00
Bubble spotting in bond markets may be a wasteful endeavourCurrent market conditions attract lots of commentators prepared to spot another period of insanityTue Apr 22 2014 - 11:30
Economic forecasting wastes time and moneyOpinion: like most bad habits, forecasting is hard to give upFri Apr 18 2014 - 01:00
Taxpayer needs to quit playing Santa Claus to banksNoonan tells us that we are sitting on a small pot if gold, called AIB bank, worth about €11 billionMon Apr 14 2014 - 13:16
UK’s relationship with the EU enters fragile stageA UK exit plan from the EU is worked out in prize-winning reportFri Apr 11 2014 - 01:01
Assumption about education and growth may need to be revisedColumnist Chris Johns says debate on funding of Irish higher education should be welcomedTue Apr 08 2014 - 13:21
Is quantitative easing on the way? Watch the euroThe ECB seems to be slowly but surely following the lead of the UK and USFri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00
Why rising property prices are badThe illusion of rising prosperity that comes from higher house prices still grips usTue Apr 01 2014 - 13:42
Politics, not economics, underpins the euroPutin’s Crimean adventure may have brought a coherence and unity to European thinking that recession and high unemployment could never achieveFri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00
Sanctions will hurt Russia far more than anything it can retaliate withThe West must show unity in dealing with Russia over Ukraine and find alternative sources of energyFri Mar 21 2014 - 14:02
Europe seems determined to replicate Japanese slumpEconomics: Normalisation of US and British economies points to serious ECB policy errorsFri Mar 21 2014 - 01:00
What has the Central Bank been up to?There is an awful lot of property related lending masquerading as loans to SMEsTue Mar 18 2014 - 12:31
Marijuana tax yield may prove the final blow to war on drugsA dry 15-page document by the Colorado tax authorities indicates a possible route to widespread legalisationFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Drawing parallels between austerity in Greece and the Irish famineOxford economist comes close to drawing a thread between Trevelyan and TrichetSun Mar 09 2014 - 16:04
Six core beliefs that are too often passed off as factThe realities behind the mythsFri Mar 07 2014 - 01:00
Is Bank of Ireland making too much profit?If we want banks to be as dull but as efficient as utilities they must be regulated in the same wayTue Mar 04 2014 - 12:33
Europe needs faster growth, not just the ‘confidence fairy’Sluggish economies with high unemployment are feeding a malaise that is benefitting europhobic partiesFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
Europe is unlikely to mimic Japan with decades of low growthJapan was so wealthy twenty years ago, low growth has not been that much of a hardshipTue Feb 25 2014 - 13:28
Forget the rules of investing – and pay a heavy priceThe sense in which equities are a “sure thing” is a very slippery conceptFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:01
Consequences for everyone if Scots decide to leave UKA distaste for the European currency is one thing that does unite the UKFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
Why has the Left failed to exploit the financial crisis?One of the many unsolved puzzles is the absence of a coherent left wing narrative, writes Chris JohnsTue Feb 11 2014 - 19:34
Tax debate needs to be much more sophisticatedRecent exchange between Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow and Harvard professor Greg Mankiw is illustrativeFri Feb 07 2014 - 01:00
Has a central bank ever admitted making a mistake?The ECB should fess up to its errors and figure out a way of giving us some debt reliefTue Feb 04 2014 - 13:15
Relying on the kindness of strangers is risky businessWe need to be on our guard against external shocksFri Jan 31 2014 - 01:00
Time to give up the 'cute hoor' tagIf we want some misbehaving charities in particular, and public service in general, to change, it has to come from the bottom up. Time to change some “norms” of Irish behaviour.Tue Jan 28 2014 - 12:32
Why we need to embrace chaosTime to transform our thinking to make the most of this technological revolutionFri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
Like insurance, is consultancy a necessary evil?Consultants sometimes deservedly get bad press but things have got out of handTue Jan 21 2014 - 12:19
Growth on rebound despite underlying presence of crisisEvidence of a restorative process is to be found in surprising placesFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Have the banks forgotten how to lend?The modern job description for a business lender is not unlike that of an equity analystTue Jan 14 2014 - 12:29
Immigrants should be as welcome as oil or goldMost of the available evidence suggests that immigration brings net economic benefitsFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
SMEs and global recovery are best hopesAs a small player, Ireland is subject to vagaries. But enterprise, banks and less austerity are good toolsFri Dec 27 2013 - 01:03
Troika or bond markets – external forces still master our universeOne way or another, albeit through different channels, the troika will also be exercising influence.Fri Dec 13 2013 - 01:00
Exploding the myth of the ‘squeezed middle’Evidence does not support view Ireland is low tax economy or that disproportionate burden of austerity fell on middle classFri Dec 13 2013 - 00:47
What lessons can be learned from economic recovery?Europe obsesses about who will pay for future bank bailouts while failing to deal with consequences of the lastWed Dec 11 2013 - 13:45
Chris Johns: Pope Francis has a point about poverty, if not its causesGrowth has lifted more people – hundreds of millions – out of poverty than ever beforeFri Dec 06 2013 - 09:00
Law forbidding bank bailouts could prevent future crisesAmendment should be passed to stop Government investment in banksTue Dec 03 2013 - 12:03
It’s too early for talk of recovery but signs are goodWe still have not dealt with mortgage arrears in any meaningful wayFri Nov 29 2013 - 01:02
Too early to tell if there is a new housing bubble growingProperty market insiders attest to a high level of cash-only buyingThu Nov 28 2013 - 01:00
Is Bitcoin a solution to the euro crisis?Digital currency could be a cheaper way of transferring money around the globeTue Nov 26 2013 - 13:01
What if the natural rate of interest is negative?Summers’s prediction of ‘secular stagnation’ sets blogosphere alight, writes Chris JohnsWed Nov 20 2013 - 14:30
‘Clean’ break comes with lots of oversightThe bond market will take it as read that we will behave ourselves and not upset ournew masters in Brussels and FrankfurtFri Nov 15 2013 - 01:00
Euro is still a recession away from disasterUS policy response to financial crisis has proven to be far more effectiveThu Nov 14 2013 - 22:11
The rise of the 1 per cent in the Robotic AgeRising global inequality may not just be a cyclical phenomenonWed Nov 13 2013 - 12:09
Then and now: Lesson of the rear-view mirror is that change is the one constantThere were few ‘jobs for life’, lots of farmers and almost no multinational firms. Irish business did things differently in 1963Tue Nov 12 2013 - 00:30
