Full coverage: Philip Lane

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. 

There’s a shortcut to figuring out whether a central bank has pushed too hard or not hard enough. All you need is a trendline.

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.

Despite concerns over inflation, the markets do not anticipate rates to rise until 2025 at the earliest. Instead, the real focus for central bankers will be on the longer-term issues surrounding eurozone banking profitability. Investors in Irish banks will be watching on with interest.