Full coverage: Inflation

Where will the price spiral leave Ireland, Europe and the US? Also last week, we teased out the issues at An Bord Pleanála, followed the examinerships of Natterjack and Premier Periclase, and interviewed Revenue chairman Niall Cody.

We can often mistake inflation for what is, in reality, profiteering. And with the ERSI forecasting a 8.5% spike in inflation, the government must tackle those who use it as an opportunity to gouge on prices.

Analysis by The Currency shows net government supports are absorbing around half of the recent energy price increases targeted. Now is the time to get more strategic with counter-inflation spending.

With the pandemic receding, Declan Black, managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, believes the biggest threat is now the societal risk posed by inflation. He also discusses how Covid impacted the 540-person firm and changed its future.

Inflation represents yet another segregation in our economy, between those who can cope with rising prices and those who cannot. The government knows this too but is either unwilling or unable to end this segregation.

After a long period of calm in the foreign exchange markets, the tectonic plates are shifting. Expect much more volatility than we've become accustomed to.

Ireland’s public sector unions are gearing up to renegotiate their pay agreement. In the end, the state will pay more, workers will work about the same, and taxes will have to be found to pay for it all. Then, workers in loads of other sectors will ask for more too.

OPEC has the ability to raise production levels of oil quite easily, but it seems that political pressure would have to increase massively before this happens. The bottom line is that consumers will have to get used to higher oil prices.