Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of a deep distributional conflict between firms, workers, and taxpayers. It is the job of central banks to moderate that conflict without causing recessions.
Ireland today is not the same country that joined the EEC in 1973, and trade with the continent hardly qualifies as imports and exports anymore. The food and climate policy debate should reflect this.
Predictions are not usually accurate, but it's good to think things through nonetheless.
While I’m not convinced that ChatGPT is going to be writing The Currency opinion pieces anytime soon, I do think that it has an extraordinary ability to put some people out of jobs pretty quickly: entry-level software engineers.
It’s abundantly clear that Xi Jinping’s personal beliefs were the driving force around the zero Covid policies. However, when these policies were no longer serving his own personal interests, a dramatic shift took place.
The World Cup victory for Argentina and Messi was the fitting end to a year of huge sporting consequence.
Not many people in Ireland have experienced Sean Quinn's dramatic evaporation of his wealth. But there is not a household that can avoid suffering and loss at some stage.
This decade's €119bn estimated cost of meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets is beginning to translate into concrete change, including in the coming year. Spoiler: Car park bans and congestion charges aren’t on the list.
Have the events of 2022 been enough to shake labour market confidence in Big Tech and could 2023 be the year where indigenous tech leapfrogs multinationals as first choice for talent?
Despite the protestations of Philip Lane, the northern European faction of the ECB is happy to bring about a recession. Anything to fight inflation.
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