Why would law makers discommode influential and supportive friends? asks Michael Clifford

The false dichotomy of governments versus markets must be dropped in favour of clear thought about desired market outcomes, writes Mariana Mazzucato

While 80% want to stay in the EU, many also profess to be socialist. A balance of free-market ideals and privatisation, tempered by debt relief, is the best compromise, says Paul Glader

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has failed in a bid to win asylum in France.

More than half of the country’s net household wealth rests in the hands of just 10% of the population, while people in less well-off sectors of society owe more than they own.

Matt Rognlie is a fun and a very smart guy. 

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

SWEETS for babbies. I know that’s a harsh assessment of Tuesday’s budget, but we have endured too much to be faced now with more of the same.

Bermuda shorts. Check. Swimming togs x2. Check. Factor 50. Check. War & Peace, Ulysses. Ch... Hold it a minute.

THE man is out to ruin me. All I’m doing is sitting in my palatial home in leafy south Dublin, minding my own business and the steady rise in the value of my property. Which is quite a relief, as you can appreciate, given I paid at least a third more for it than it’s currently worth.

Workers who earn more than €100,000 a year should pay almost half of their salary to the Government.

The French academic Thomas Piketty is enjoying far more than the usual 15 seconds of fame, for an economist at least.

As the wealth gap globally widens, a political backlash has begun among an increasingly militant public, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.