David McWilliams: Swiss model of local power is the key to successful united IrelandBritish people in northeast could run own affairs in hyper-devolved Irish federationSat Aug 21 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Donegal to Dingle could become the world’s most innovative energy hubIn same way oil transformed Gulf States, wind, wave and tidal energy could transform IrelandSat Aug 14 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A new Dublin Port City is an obvious solution for the housing crisisWe need to be thinking about the right thing to do for Ireland 2060, not Ireland 2021Sat Aug 07 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The economy is about to take offWe’re at the Instagram phase of recovery – spending on things we want to tell the world aboutSat Jul 31 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The global population will soon fall, and this will change the worldFalling populations in Europe, America and Asia will make Africa an economic superpowerSat Jul 24 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Brown Thomas has a car park problemThe retailer’s name is over the gate of a car park that’s limiting city centre pedestrianisationSat Jul 17 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland a tax haven? I don’t think soOur globalised economy is fuelled by multinationals and this makes us much better-offSat Jul 10 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: In the mandarin v merchant debate, my money is on the merchantsNphet and the hospitality industry are vying for the ear of the GovernmentSat Jul 03 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Germany under pressure to reinvent itself for a post-carbon worldIndustrial Germany is a carbon addict, and the CDU is wedded to the carbon economy that has served Germany so well for 50 yearsSat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Irish people like houses because they have made people richHousing has created a division between property-owning ‘insiders’ and locked-out ‘outsiders’Sat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00
The Best Place to Live in Ireland 2021: Could it be Dún Laoghaire, Derry or Dunmore East?Why I love where I live, by Róisín Ingle, David McWilliams, Jennifer O’Connell and moreSun Jun 13 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Educated elite have become more left wingWill Ireland’s middle class vote for a party that promises to build homes for their children?Sat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Tax unused land and the housing market will be sortedLandlords will bring idle land into use pronto if they face a big cost such as taxSat Jun 05 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland must escape the clutches of old economic ideasState's challenge is project management, not fiscal constraint. Bank largesse is way aheadSat May 29 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Tyranny of short-termism contributing to housing crisisMetrics we use to fix this problem need to be based on politics of preparation, not of outrageSat May 22 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A city must not be just an amusement park for the well-offA proper living city provides home for people of all income levels and backgroundsSat May 15 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We are at the end of a slow-moving housing Ponzi schemeBond market can make us good ancestors by fixing the problem with long-term lendingSat May 08 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Serial objectors are colonising future through NimbyismThe more we object to development, the more house prices will riseSat May 01 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A 30-year economic supercycle ended this weekAgenda of unlikely radical Biden is to give economy back to the man on the streetSat Apr 24 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: When the US and Russia finally negotiate, Ireland should play hostBetween Biden’s sanctions and the build-up of Russian forces in the Ukraine, the US and Russia will need to sit down together soonSat Apr 17 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A female-led economy is coming – and it will be betterThose with money shape society. An economy where women earn more will be differentSat Apr 10 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Are Ireland’s relatively low Covid deaths due to emigration?Emigration to the UK in the 1950s and 1960s may have saved our fragile health service far more than lengthy lockdownSat Apr 03 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Stay away from the Irish property market. It holds no valueIrish housing market has hit peak dysfunction and buyers should go on strikeSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: No one seems to have noticed there’s a monetary revolution under wayIf the ECB re-establishes the old rules post-pandemic, a eurozone crisis will ensueSat Mar 20 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland has too many stockbrokers and lawyers, not enough engineersThe Davy affair reveals how much money is sloshing around for people who don’t innovateSat Mar 13 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: This St Patrick’s Day, Ireland should do a vaccine deal with the USOther countries have put the welfare of citizens first and secured alternative vaccinesSat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why Ireland will recover faster than othersState has had the most stringent lockdown and will have the most effervescent upswingSat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The economics of the drug trade and the case for legalisationWe can undertake a social experiment no one thought possible before the pandemicSat Feb 20 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland builds houses at the wrong time, in the wrong place, at the wrong priceThe housing units we plan to build will not be enough, not by halfSat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A solution to Irish house-price sillinessGermany make wages the basis of house prices. Ireland does it the other way roundSat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Covid-19 and Zoom will not finish off DublinThe city needs to change from a shopping and work entrepot to a living, artisanal centreSat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why the young are priced out of the Irish economyIreland’s model of 'rentier capitalism' is stacked against the younger generationSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: What Doc Martens can teach us about wealthThe company that made boots for punks and skins is floating on London’s stock exchangeSat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Capitol rioters can’t stop the economic forces undermining their tribeThe white working class is slipping down the US and global pecking orderSat Jan 09 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Covid and Brexit a confluence of opportunity for IrelandIreland could be in for a manufacturing renaissance in the coming decadeSat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The 2020 changes that are here to stay2020 in review: From how we think about money to the working week, some lessons will stick with usSat Dec 26 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The Airbnb mania gripping Silicon Valley and Wall Street has me worriedAs its share price neared $140, I was reminded of the ‘canal mania’ of the late 1700sSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The break-up of the United Kingdom has just acceleratedDUP’s Brexit manoeuvring has done more to undermine the Union than Sinn FéinSat Dec 12 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Start building and don’t stop until we have all-island transportAll-island infrastructure hasn’t been considered for 100 years. Too longSat Dec 05 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: We need to reinvent our empty city car parksUrban car parks will soon be like suburban churches: empty relics of a bygone eraSat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The business trip is dead. Dublin goes into mourningSurprising amount of urban economy depends on maligned business travellerSat Nov 21 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Ireland is facing a golden opportunity for its economyVaccine, low rates and madness of King Boris have changed our economic outlookSat Nov 14 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Middle-aged unemployment is Ireland’s new growth areaCurrent alarm rightly focuses on youth, but there is another long-term structural problemSat Nov 07 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: A plan to put Ireland’s 200,000 vacant buildings to useDuring the most acute housing crisis we have faced, close to 15% of properties are vacantSat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Lockdown decision makers still get paid. Those they shut down do notGovernment should aid small businesses directly to help prevent bankruptciesSat Oct 24 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The rules of the property game have changedA meaningful dereliction tax would change the game further, and for the betterSat Oct 17 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Why an Irish mortgage costs €80k more than a German oneThis lamentable situation could end if State-owned AIB offered loans at the ECB rateSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The young people partying in Galway are our futureRather than vilify them, let’s nurture them and invest in them now while we canSat Oct 03 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: The better the economy does, the more Covid-19 spreadsBluntly, there will be no economic momentum as long as we have lockdownsSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
David McWilliams: Johnson’s UK and Milosevic’s Yugoslavia – spot the differenceThis could be the beginning of the end of the UK as the centre now struggles to holdSat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
