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“I wouldn’t start from here, if I were you: reforming our budget institutions.“

October 3, 2019 6:10 am Published by Stephen Kinsella

The Irish civil service is the spinal column of the State. While ministers decide, the civil service implements. It is... View Article

October 2, 2019 5:57 am Published by Ross Hunt

Recently, I have started describing Ireland as having a Schrodinger’s Economy – it seems both alive and dead at the... View Article

October 1, 2019 2:40 am Published by Constantin Gurdgiev

At the strike of midnight on September 1, the White House fired another salvo of shots in its heating trade... View Article

October 1, 2019 2:25 am Published by Ian

Taxation has never been a topic of any great interest to me. As a businessperson, I appreciate the link between... View Article

September 30, 2019 2:00 am Published by Patrick Honohan

How bad will Brexit be for the Irish economy? With so much focus on the dispiriting and dangerous prospect of... View Article

September 27, 2019 5:19 pm Published by Stephen Kinsella

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe takes the longer view, and that’s a good thing. In an interview with The Currency’s... View Article

September 25, 2019 6:32 pm Published by Anne Harris

One of the most seductive aphorisms for life’s vicissitudes is attributed to Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist who authored The... View Article

September 25, 2019 4:37 pm Published by Sean Keyes

Banks’ business models have been wrecked twice in the last twenty years. Now they’re not sure what to do with... View Article

September 24, 2019 5:54 pm Published by Stephen Kinsella

In the late 1950s, Richard Musgrave argued a state should intervene in the economy to do three things. First, the... View Article

September 24, 2019 3:31 pm Published by Cait Caden

There is a building on Dublin’s Grafton Street where people work both as matchmakers and online child protectors. Rena Maycock... View Article