On Thursday, beaming down from a giant screen on Times Square, the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, wished New Yorkers ...

Imagine if the associations’s existing network were pressed into service to implement a proven Danish model of co-operative ...

The question haunting the corridors of the EU and the ECB is: could France be a huge Greece at the heart of the bloc?

Juan Perón turned Argentina into an economic basket case with the kind of meddling now embraced by the US president ...

It’s not every day I worry about the welfare of estate agents. This tribe doesn’t immediately spring to mind as an oppressed minority worthy of our protection – but these days, the main street’s ...

From plutocrat to bureaucrat, everyone seems to have an opinion on Dublin’s proposed MetroLink. Some argue it’s too expensive to build, others that it’s too expensive not to build. One opinion that ...

This week Fox News, that bastion of truth, claimed that violent crime in Dublin is surging. Armed with a ‘statistic’ that murders and assaults were up 114 per cent, the American broadcaster reported ...

One of the joys of writing a weekly column is the unusual tributaries explored, often sparked by real-world events. Today I’ve been watching old clips of The Godfather, in particular Marlon Brando’s ...

One of the golden rules of economics is you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Managing a problem will be easier using hard evidence, backed by accurate data. It is a business school version of the ...