Just like in the Netflix blockbuster Stranger Things, we have entered ‘The Upside Down’ through a portal to a dysfunctional money system, one that has implications across all our lives, suggests Eddie Hobbs.

So that’s nearly Friday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to ram home hard Brexiteer policy by playing with the House of Commons rules, writes Eddie Hobbs

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Hell-bent on breaking out of the EU orbit at any price, the Boris Johnson government may find its yellow hammer swallowed in the maw of the next global financial crisis, suggests Eddie Hobbs.

A hefty cut to directors’ pay contributed to pre-tax profits at the financial services firm co-owned by Eddie Hobbs increasing by more from than 11-fold to €73,425 last year.

So John Horan will hardly countenance splitting Dublin, but he is happy to divide Cork.

So that’s nearly Thursday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

No one knows if we are facing into another recession but but if you haven’t looked at the positioning of your own financial products, now is probably a good time to do so, suggests economist Eddie Hobbs.

The Offaly county councillor topped the poll in the Birr constituency in the recent local elections.

Australian exceptionalism is as much a myth as Ireland’s was in the face of an excessive debt bubble from a prolonged housing boom, suggests Eddie Hobbs.

So that’s Tuesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A recent report by Denise Braily, the President of Australian BFCSA (Banking & Finance Consumers Support Association), to a Royal Commission on banking provided a worrying picture of banking in Australia.

Be warned. The robot wars in financial services has started, writes Eddie Hobbs.

Irish and British General Elections could yet run in parallel before the end game, most likely a Customs Union deal, writes Eddie Hobbs

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High director pay levels denied celebrity consumer advocate, Eddie Hobbs’ financial advisory firm a return to profit last year.

Revelations that more than half a million euro has been stolen from accounts in two Cork credit unions should lead to an external review of the governance of both institutions.

Financial adviser and author Eddie Hobbs details 12 key points that were missing from the Public Service Pay Commission

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Rent control alone is not enough. We need a multi-faceted approach unhindered by the chronic short-termism of clientilism, says Eddie Hobbs.

Around 500 secondary schools are closed today as 17,500 members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) tale part in industrial action here’s five talking points which will underpin the action.

They may yet transpire to be the cause of the intermittent financial bubbles that have shaken the global economy since 2008, as they were in the late 1920s, says Eddie Hobbs

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

It would appear that a disenchantment with the failings of a recently established global economy was one of the reasons for a Brexit vote in the UK, but Britain will need access to the Single Market and the European Commission will negotiate to keep to keep Britain in, says Eddie Hobbs.

Whatever the outcome of the EU referendum financial expert Eddie Hobbs believes it will leave a deep divide with serious implications for Ireland.

Financial guru Eddie Hobbs is reported to have quit Renua, the party that failed to secure a single seat in the last general election.

We don’t own our natural resources under Article 10 of the Constitution. It needs to be repealed, but is there anyone with the bottle to take it on, asks Eddie Hobbs