No matter whether the money comes from, the liberal centre or the libertarian right, if you want influence in America you pay ...

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 ...

From the very beginning energy has been central to human existence. Economists will tell you that mastery of a new technology has always conferred a competitive advantage. In distant human history, ...

The only people doing great business in Dublin’s north inner city these days are the fellas selling metal shopfront shutters. Dublin, particularly off the main streets, feels like the set of a ...

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 ...

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 ...