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Aidan Regan: Are millennials really worse off than their parents? Yes – and politically, this matters

The real-wage stagnation and collapse in home ownership that marks a reverse in fortune for today’s young people is also shifting voting patterns here and abroad

Aidan Regan: Young renters and lower earners will pay the price for ECB’s anti-inflation strategy

There’s plenty of pain, but the only gain will be for the banks from the EU central bank’s plan to slow inflation to 2 per cent by turning the screw on the housing market

Aidan Regan: Just how far is Ireland from having a far-right party?

As a nation without an electorally viable anti-immigration radical right-wing party in 2023, we are outliers across the globe. How did we get here, and what do we need to do to remain a liberal democracy?

Aidan Regan: Global tax games fuel wealth inequality and erode democracy

Ireland may profit from its privileged position on the gameboard, but the real winners are the super-rich owners of Big Tech and Big Pharma corporations

EU must put its money where its mouth is on Green Deal

US president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act should prompt Europe to switch its rules on state aid and subsidise clean-tech industries that will drive decarbonisation

Aidan Regan: How the Fed has gone from saving Ireland to putting on the squeeze

The engine that has powered our growth model since the financial crash is slowing, and there’s little the government can do about it – but the bigger question is whether we will see a sudden, big drop in the corporate tax take

Aidan Regan: Frustrated renters are a political force to be reckoned with

There is very little data available on housing wealth inequality yet it plays a big part in politics – over 75 per cent of non-homeowners plan to vote for Sinn Féin and other left parties at the next election

Aidan Regan: Britain’s self-inflicted woes may well be a warning sign of things to come in Europe

Europe might find itself in the same position as Britain if the ECB continues to pursue an aggressive quantitative tightening strategy

Aidan Regan: Meloni capitalises on cultural nostalgia in a bid to make Italy great again

Economic stagnation is a problem, and with despondent Italians increasingly blaming the EU for its woes, many seek the stability of a right-wing coalition willing to challenge European policy

Aidan Regan: Irish politics has realigned along new class lines

With the rise of the knowledge economy, a new working class has emerged of highly educated, low-income voters. It is these who are likely to carry Sinn Féin into government at the next general election

Aidan Regan: Following dated economic policies will give Putin what he wants

The usual way to dampen inflation is by rising interest rates but in a time of war, a different approach is needed

Aidan Regan: How a new generation is rising to the challenge of greening our economies

Young social scientists have looked at ways in which the ECB and national fiscal authorities could work in tandem to finance a renewable energy revolution, while pricing the fossil fuel industry out of existence

Aidan Regan: The truth is that nobody knows what will or won’t work to end this inflation crisis

Governments and central banks are desperate for a silver-bullet solution to the current inflation crisis, but increasing interest rates is unlikely to make much difference – except to engineer yet another recession

Aidan Regan: Tories’ Brexit games aim to distract from Britain’s dwindling finances

Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party colleagues know they have made Britain poorer, more bureaucratic, more unequal and more expensive, that’s why they are reigniting the Brexit fight by ripping up the NI protocol

Aidan Regan: Ireland needs to stop relying on phantom corporate taxes

Last week’s Ifac report was optimistic about Ireland’s fiscal future, but rightly pointed out the danger of relying too much on the volatile global accounting strategies of multinationals

Aidan Regan: Corporate profiteering is at the root of the inflation crisis, not wage demands

Increasing interest rates won’t reduce prices as they are not driven by wage rises, but by multinational behemoths squeezing excess profit from a captive market

Aidan Regan: Why the takeover of the digital town hall by the richest man on the planet is a bad idea

Despite his claims, Elon Musk has no idea how to promote free speech online while maintaining the values of liberal democracy

Aidan Regan: In a world of carbon inequality, the biggest challenge is to develop a working-class climate politics

If our climate politics focuses on taxation rather than investment to generate the public financing conditions for behavioural change, then we can expect nothing less than a Le Pen-style backlash

Aidan Regan: Ukraine war exposes lie at the heart of global ‘free trade’ myth

Globalisation doesn’t lead to free and fair societies, instead it helps to prop up dictators and the democratic world needs to wake up to this reality

Aidan Regan: If we’re serious about supporting Ukraine, and saving the planet, we should immediately ban all Russian fossil-fuel imports

Putin’s war depends on the money that Russia earns supplying gas, coal and oil to Europe. We need a radical EU-wide plan to switch immediately to renewables