Full coverage: Inflation

There is no reason for inflation to stop decreasing once it has hit the intended target. I think the major central banks may end up cutting rates sooner rather than later.

The things that happened last year, the predictions of the things that happened last year, and the predictions for the coming year.

Monetary policy is normalising, leaving us facing both opportunities and challenges in 2024. Let's hope for more of the former and less of the latter. 

Moody’s decision to put the US on a negative watch was fully warranted, reflecting political dysfunction on an epic scale. The lack of any cohesive plan to deal with the US debt trajectory makes it more likely that other rating agencies will follow suit.

The first wind farm in Ireland’s race to 80% renewable power returned a 25% margin to its developer. Then the energy world changed.

Vehicles used by the US investment firm to purchase distressed Irish loans are reporting pressure from their own lenders and discounting the value of their portfolios, triggering various responses to the resulting profit squeeze.

Paschal Donohoe has been involved in crafting the last eight budgets. In a major interview, he addresses the risks of fuelling inflation and baking in non-core expenditure, his change of heart on mortgage interest relief and the limits to health spending.

Prolonged high inflation is "incredibly socially divisive and economically very injurious," says Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe ahead of the budget. This theme threads through all others discussed in his interview with The Currency last week.

What is new in the spike in prices that followed Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine? How are corporate profits feeding into it? And how does Europe escape an inflation spiral? Stephen Kinsella meets the ECB’s chief economist.

Glanbia boss Siobhán Talbot has given her last half-year results presentation, confirming the group’s ability to leverage price rises and cut debt in the current inflationary environment.