In response to Daniel McConnell’s article on April 6, I would like to make the following points.

In his epic March 2011 Vanity Fair piece on the Irish financial crash, Michael Lewis made many fascinating observations about our funny little ways.

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Michael Lewis's latest book on America again produces a riveting read on what could be such a dry subject, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

In his seminal book Moneyball, Michael Lewis observed that the play-offs could frustrate the hell out of some of the most progressive front offices in baseball because it offered such a small sample size.

We all know that The Singularity is coming. I just didn’t expect my first sighting of it in Nowlan Park after a National Hurling League game.

Longford-born Anne-Marie Tomchak looks at the issue of personal data being put online on Cloud Control at 10.15pm on RTÉ One on Thursday.

If ever the peculiarity of stock markets was ever illustrated, it may have been this week when, fresh from posting the highest quarterly profits of any company in history, Apple slipped from its perch as the world’s most valuable company.

The Big Short (15A) opens in 2005, when number-cruncher extraordinaire Dr Michael Burry (Christian Bale) discovers the vast hole at the heart of the American economy. 

Those big awards movies have mostly released by now, which means we might have a few less tears in the aisles and a couple more laughs. Also an inside look at when the world's markets exploded, but maybe some people find that funny.

FC Midtylland, Southampton’s Europa League opponents tonight, are challenging long-held and accepted ways of doing things in football by gradually replacing traditional scouting with a mix of statistics and video analysis...

Virtu Financial says it plans to raise up to $314m (€284.8m) in a share sale. The company delayed its initial public offering amid a furor over high-frequency traders arising from a best-selling book release.

John Daly rounds up the best and most informative business, management, and financial books of the year

In appearance, Bill James reminds you of Michel Lonsdale, the French actor best known for his portrayal of Lebel, the detective who catches the assassin in Day of The Jackal.

Ben Bradlee died last week at the age of 93.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian stole the show at a glitzy awards do – designed to celebrate men.

Did we include your favourite?

Boosted by their podium finish on Rally Finland, Tyrone’s Kris Meeke pictured and his Killarney co-driver Paul Nagle will push for another big result on the ADAC Rallye Deutschland that begins today in Trier.

Four men have been charged by police after a smash and grab raid on a Louis Vuitton store in London.

In today’s “rigged” US stock market, large investors such as Greenlight Capital are like “dumb tourists” led to a casino where the card games are fixed, according to Michael Lewis, whose book Flash Boys has touched off a national debate about high-frequency trading.

The US stock market is rigged in a way that benefits sophisticated traders at the expense of other investors, according to best-selling author Michael Lewis.

The Government’s efforts to repair our battered reputation abroad has been made much more difficult by the Anglo tapes, writes business correspondent John Walsh

Inspired by Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, Rob Carroll has taken to crunching the numbers in GAA — but discovered one manager’s fish is another’s foul when it comes to stats.

Perhaps Moneyball and Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s are to blame, but pro sport’s fascination with statistics is underlined by the franchises taking notes at a special stat conference in Boston

We have known for a long time now that football cannot die.

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In the second of a series on the markets’ downfall, David Young says unfettered borrowing and soft regulation caused the crisis. Political prevarication is deepening it further

BILLY BEANE, the man behind the Moneyball phenomenon, has dismissed the notion that the principles which brought him success in baseball cannot be adapted to other sports.

IT’S the top of the 10th inning in Houston and the St Louis Cardinals are battling for the right to keep playing in October, baseball’s favourite month.

There will be hell to pay if the next government fails to implement the changes voters are crying out for, writes TP O’Mahony

YOU can call off the search.

WHILE you sit there on the train or in the canteen or outside the school gate, ponder this one: what’s the connection between hurling in north Kerry and Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt?

I’M AFRAID there’s a bit of a problem with Munster’s Heineken Cup semi-final against Biarritz, which is now slated for Sunday, May 2, in San Sebastian, in northern Spain.

ONE of the Irish sailors who narrowly escaped disaster after their yacht struck rocks in Indonesian waters during a major worldwide race has spoken of his near-death escape.

Sandra Bullock kept turning down her role in ‘The Blind Side’ because she was unsure she could do the role justice.