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David McWilliams

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Irish economy
    Ireland may no longer be able to ride two horses

    How should a government with too much money handle a surprise €13bn rebate?

    President Joe Biden outside St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina last year
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Unhedged podcast22 min listen
    How Ireland got too much money

    Dublin is running a huge budget surplus. What should the government do with it?

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    ReviewEconomics books
    Money by David McWilliams — an exceptional global history

    A hugely ambitious, insightful and readable account of our relationship with money

    A pile of coins
  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Bloom or bust: what James Joyce can teach us about economics

    A century on from the publication of ‘Ulysses’, David McWilliams asks whether artists and entrepreneurs are really that different

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 20212 min
    David McWilliams: ‘Britain must learn to think like a small country’

    Will the union survive? Is England prepared to pay the price?

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin stakes a claim to the New Ireland

    Talk of IRA links wearies voters who want to leave the past behind

    A pedestrian walks past election posters featuring Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald (top), Ireland's Prime minister and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar (C) and the Green Party's Eamon Ryan, in Dublin on February 6, 2020 ahead of the February 8 General Election. - Ireland will go to the polls on Fenruary 8, in an early general election, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said, seeking to capitalise on his part in brokering the Brexit deal. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP) (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2019
    Brexit
    Punishing Ireland’s economy will backfire on Brexiters

    London’s strategy of inflicting as much commercial damage as possible is unjustified

    Pedestrians walk past The Temple Bar in central Dublin, Ireland, on Monday, June 4, 2018. Companies are expanding in Dublin rather than the U.K. in a "silent Brexit," according to Hibernia REIT Plc boss Kevin Nowlan. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 1 March, 2019
    US quantitative easing
    Quantitative easing was the father of millennial socialism

    Federal Reserve’s bid to stave off depression sowed the seeds of a generational revolt

    former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Friday, 12 May, 2017
    Punk FT4 min
    Pound's pre-election punch-up

    Katie Martin and Punk FT on the currency's fight

  • Friday, 15 July, 2016
    Sovereign wealth funds
    Ireland can conjure a pot of sovereign wealth gold

    We need to rethink the ties between nation states and global corporations, writes David McWilliams

    Ireland tourist souvenir t-shirts sit on display at a store in Dublin, Ireland on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Euro-area economic growth unexpectedly slowed last quarter as expansion in its three largest economies fell short of estimates, highlighting the fragility of the recovery amid uncertainty surrounding the global outlook. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 31 May, 2012
    World
    Radical vision to prevent eurozone disintegration
  • Thursday, 31 May, 2012
    World
    McWilliams is a lone voice of reason in the Irish wilderness
  • Thursday, 11 November, 2010
    European banks
    Moody & Poor ... but Ireland is rich in humour
  • Friday, 14 May, 2010
    Life & Arts
    How bankers brought Ireland to its knees
  • Monday, 19 January, 2009
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    Ireland needs help
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