Democrats go after Mitt Romney with a scathing new ad that suggests the Republican presidential hopeful will say anything to get elected:

Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard University says: "Chapter 19 of my favourite textbook has a case study on the economic...

Mark Twain, the American writer, was reputed to have said that a fool and his money are soon parted! The Rhine river by German artist An...

WorldIrish.com , a website for the Irish, or anyone who has an affinity with Ireland, "harnessing the power of existing social netw...

Richard Bruton speaking to a US-Irish conference in Dublin today, said he is working on a plan to create 200,000 net new jobs - -  effective...

A recent thread on the Irish Economy blog has been prompted by a comment from Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, on austerity in Ire...

The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) says Palm Beach, Florida-based personal injury lawyer Craig Goldenfarb has taken to trolling for...

There is no doubt that some people revel in bad news while others thrive on the public attention that messages of gloom bring them.  This...

The suggestion in the Irish Times that the Government may give additional powers to an agency such as MABS, the money and budgeting advice ...

Prof. Morgan Kelly delivered the Hubert Butler Annual lecture on Saturday in Kilkenny as part of their Arts Festival. This is a contribut...

Last week, Moody's, the credit ratings agency, downgraded Ireland's sovereign debt to below investment grade or 'junk' stat...

The following is a post to a thread on German and Irish competitiveness in recent years. Standard & Poor’s reported in 2009 that in ...

The following is from an Irish Economy Blog thread on an article in The Wall Street Journal: It’s odd that two academics could produce su...

After winning the Ice Hockey World Championships, many players of the Finnish ice hockey team returned home drunk this month. The Finns a...

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show responded to supporters of Dominique Strauss-Kahn such as Ben Stein, who is lawyer, actor, newspaper columnist...

Brendan Walsh, emeritus professor of economics at UCD, writes in the Irish Economy Blog that the rise in the Irish unemployment rate reveals...

Time magazine reported in April 1973 that the Nixon Administration had developed a new language—a kind of Nix-speak. Government officials w...

Speaker at the March 2011 San Francisco, CreativeMornings ( creativemornings.com ) was Mike Monteiro, Design Director, and co-founder of Mul...

Ireland is no longer a society mainly marked by the division between rich and poor but it is an unjust society of insiders and outsiders. ...

Aengus Fanning, the editor, has an article in today’s Sunday Independent: ‘We need leaders who will ignore the eurobabble and just say no’ ...

Karl Whelan, professor of economics at UCD in South Dublin argues that enough has been cut and he claims to have taken a 30% cut in salary ...

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Master statistician Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. ...

Milton Friedman was an American economist who became an icon of the conservative movement and he was interviewed in 1979 on a chat show pre...

UPDATE Sept 09, 2014: The idiot/ eejit's guide to distorted Irish national economic data UPDATE: May 26, 2013 : In recent years, Ac...