In fact, as the first phase of Brexit negotiations comes to an end it is lunacy
There is nothing more Procrustean than our approach to housing, where a situation is being tailored to fit an arbitrary standard
Stephen Kinsella takes a look at some issues likely to arise in the near future
Research by Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman shows more than 10 per cent of all global wealth is now held in tax havens
The reason many young families are broke is our broken childcare model. Good policies can fix that
It is funny how the entire banking system engaged in this behaviour and has similar amounts of compensation in mind. There’s a word for that: collusion.
Ophelia was just a little taste of what awaits Ireland in the future, unless we get our act together on climate change. But can preventive measures be forced through, even if it isn’t already too late?
Get used to budgets without a big bang: they are part of a process that serves to benefit us all
We can’t think carefully about the future and sometimes we’re all just a bit mad. Thaler is one of the fathers of the field of behavioural economics. Today’s budget has all the features Thaler studied.
I expect we’ll have much ado about everything except property taxes in Budget 2018
The push for property price increases is polluting the housing system. Can we fix it? Yes, by a proper use of the property tax
In her Florence speech, prime minister Theresa May conceded two of the major debating points of the first round of Brexit negotiations
The real question for the next few years is this: can workers expect to see wage increases in line with their productivity?
Crossing the ‘soft’ US/Canada border takes ten to 30 minutes. A frictionless border is the result of magical thinking by Brexiteers
British civil servants are making it up and peppering soundbites and position papers with weasel words. What has happened to the people who once ran an empire?
