Irish house prices are now well in excess of their pre-financial crisis peaks.

Is the only thing that will get them down an old fashioned recession? More supply is certainly needed but it is far from clear that more houses equals lower prices - other things are not equal

Why do we still bang on about a cost of living crisis when inflation has fallen towards zero? If not actually zero. May be the answer is really simple: in the US (and probably elsewhere) food and energy price inflation reached 40% in 2022 - higher even than during the great energy shock of 1973.

Europe has more problems than lower interest rates can solve

Even if people have more letters after their name than are in their name, they are still capable of saying daft things.

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The arguments over the help needed for the domestic economy run and run

Is Sinn Fein just a reunification party with a few half-hearted populist policies thrown in to get elected?

Neither Chris nor Jim won the economics Nobel Prize.

And much more!

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Is the Irish inflation rate too low? All economists bar one or two say that the economy is over-heating. Could the opposite be true? Latest data certainly hints in that direction.

Inflation disappoints, ever so slightly, in the US, where interest rate expectations have shifted again. The European interest rate outlook hasn't shifted at all - rates are coming down. Very soon.

An important debate is to be had about whether or not pubs, restaurants and hotels need special treatment from the government.

China would love some over-heating.

Do we want to drive cars that are potentially controlled from Beijing? Or is that just science fiction?

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