The Week magazine says Wednesday night's popular US 'Daily Show' hosted by Jon Stewart focused on JPMorgan Chase, which agreed ...

Paul Collier is the co-director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University and professor of economics and public p...

President Obama nominates Dr. Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Yellen has served in leadership po...

Financial Times Ireland correspondent Jamie Smyth speaks to Enda Luddy, head of the Dublin office of property advisers CBRE, about his pred...

Feargal O'Rourke, head of tax at the Irish unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the Big 4 accounting firm, writes in The Irish Times ...

The Economist: Ernest Green, raised in segregated Arkansas, remembers August 28th 1963: Finfacts : Famous speeches and their impact f...

Until five years ago China's economy relied remarkably little on debt. But China lost its debt inhibition in late 2008 when the global ...

Apple's seen its market share in China dwindle as homegrown smartphone makers crank out feature-packed budget models. Could the launch...

Vladimir Putin, Russian president, has looked gloomier than usual in recent times. In June, The New Yorker reports a television reporte...

China executes far more people than the rest of the world combined, but numbers have fallen dramatically in recent years. The Economist es...

The Irish Government claimed on Friday that 20 new jobs planned for the overseas offices of Enterprise Ireland, the public agency responsi...

One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed grou...

The Harvard Business Review says that the amazing resilience of the German economy is often attributed to its reliance on Mittelstand comp...

Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Twin Towers this week Photo: Chatime The annual illegal burning of the rain forest peat lands on the Indones...

News of a possible €8bn loss on pre-euro swaps is embarrassing for Italy and won't help if Rome has to go to the ECB, says Reuters...

It's striking that given two Irish economic disasters in the space of a generation, that followed appalling periods of misgovernance, s...

May 30 - The public backlash on corporate tax avoidance is growing -- and politicians are listening. At this week's OECD meeting anot...

Nicolas Sarkozy, when French president, wanted the Irish corporate tax rate raised from 12.5%. The Irish government insisted that effective...

Michael Noonan, Irish finance minister, appears to be taking a leaf from the playbook of Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, who on Tuesday at a US...

NAMA Wine Lake, the blog that has tracked NAMA – National Asset Management Agency - since Ireland's bad bank was created in 2009, has...

In his full remarks at the Google I/O conference Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Larry Page outlined the company's strategy, address...

Larry Page, Google Inc. chief executive, says he has been diagnosed with vocal cord paralysis, which has left his voice softer than before...

How big of a money maker are apps? What country's GDP is the size of the global app economy? How does app use compare to TV in terms ...

The Irish manufacturing sector moved further into contractionary territory during April, with output and new orders each declining for th...

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