Otmar Issing, former ECB and Bundesbank chief economist recalls how he warned against the creation of a  currency union between Eastern ...

I think the probability of a Euro breakup in the medium term is very low. What happens in the longer term after a decade or more, of low g...

The Wall Street Journal on the Irish: Was St. Patrick even Irish? Will drinking green Guinness make you a Plastic Paddy? And can you learn...

Industry report 2013

Steve Jobs narrates the first Think different commercial "Here's to the Crazy Ones". It never aired. Richard Dreyfuss did th...

A Samsung US commercial poking fun at Apple, that would have driven Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder, nuts if he was alive: It ha...

The historian and author of "Return of a King" describes the hasty British takeover of Afghanistan in the 19th century, and the...

Will China's rise lead to the end of capitalism? Will armies of robots replace the world's workforce? And will China be able to bl...

Conor Killeen, the chief executive and founder of Key Capital, says Ireland's real leverage with the Germans is the currency exit option...

In an exceptional year for tech innovation, not every idea had the brightest bulb. Find out which ones were the absolute worst, with Reut...

From amateur and security camera footage to images shot by professional journalists, here is a look at some of the most incredible video ...

Advanced economies could wing it through 2013, according to George Magnus, senior economic adviser to UBS, but there are some questions m...

In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre, legislators have returned to the debate over gun rights. Adam Winkler, a professor of consti...

Choose an App Store top 10 chart:  by country, free, paid, and category Choose the Top 100 with Google Maps in the current lead among ...

In the first part of "The Party's Over" (above), first broadcast in December 2011, Robert Peston, the BBC business editor, ...

Herbert Hoover, US president (1929-1933), came up with the term ‘depression’ because it was more soothing than panic or bust . The term ‘...

Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has broken Gerd Müller's 40-year record of 85 league and international goals in a calend...

From Bengal tigers to unproven actors, Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" pushes the limits of book-to-film adaptations. WSJ Off Duty ta...

Ireland Unemployment: 188,000 were unemployed continuously for 12 months or more in Oct 2012 . The following was a contribution to a thre...

Average annual earnings fell to €35,905 in 2011 from €36,117 in 2010, a decrease of 0.6%. This compares with a revised fall of 1.9% between...

Irish Economy:  Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech last night in which he said: "Such is the scale of th...

Colm McCarthy, UCD economist, wrote in The Sunday Independent yesterday: "Spare a thought for Clare County Council. On Monday, it em...

Eamon Gilmore, Ireland's Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) this week told an international audience via CNBC, that Ireland...

The Irish Economy blog has a thread on a comment article today in the Financial Times by two Spanish academics, who call on the prime min...