This increasing infantilisation of the population means that every policy is directed towards a short-term electoral sugar rush ...

Each super cycle, no matter how successful, also contains the seeds of its own destruction. Donald Trump’s victory is part of ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

When it comes to business, one of the best descriptions of the Irish I have ever heard is that we prefer to be liked rather than feared. Affable, reasonably generous, good fun and chatty, most of the ...

In the 1990s, when the Oslo peace process was in its incipient optimistic phase, I was the Israel economist for the large Swiss bank, UBS. International investment money, which had largely been absent ...

is important is rarely complicated. That is our motto.

The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity’s greatest invention. Money is everything. It brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and corrupts us. But what is money? Is it ...