Stephen Kinsella

Nov 8, 2024 | irisheconomy.ie | Stephen Kinsella

9th and 10th of January 2025, University College CorkCall for papersEarly-career economists and PhD students are invited to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2025. This year’s IPECE Workshop will be hosted by the Department of Economics in University College Cork on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2025. The workshop will be held in person in the Aras na Laoi building in UCC.

Jul 3, 2024 | thecurrency.news | Stephen Kinsella

Small states like Ireland don’t have the luxury of insular thinking, and yet, much of our daily discourse reads as if the rest of the world doesn’t matter. That is a mistake. Luckily our civil servants are less affected by insularity, perhaps because they cannot afford to be.   If that statement surprises you, the monthly briefings on the national finances by the country’s chief economist, for example, always have a few slides on developments in our main export markets.

Jun 26, 2024 | thecurrency.news | Stephen Kinsella

This is a column about wages and prices. In 2024, inflation is falling, unemployment is near historic lows, and government coffers are bursting. Since 2020, employers and workers have seen their living standards propped up by the state spending more than €32 billion through Covid, and then again through the cost-of-living crisis created by that Covid support and amplified by the invasion of Ukraine.

Jun 19, 2024 | thecurrency.news | Stephen Kinsella

All reports agree: The economy is growing rapidly. The Central Bank, the ESRI, the Fiscal Advisory Council all say roughly the same thing. Household incomes are recovering as inflation falls to below two per cent and wages rise. The economy will grow at a robust 2 to 2.5 per cent over the coming few years. Unemployment will bounce between 4 and 4.5 per cent.   All reports agree: We should see north of 2.9 million people employed by the end of 2025.

Jun 12, 2024 | thecurrency.news | Stephen Kinsella

Campaigning in elections is both hard and weird. Those who put themselves before the people expend energy, money, their time, their friends and family’s time, and their reputations, all to ask an increasingly sceptical and angry public whether it feels they deserve a chance to serve it.   Hard and weird as the campaigns were, figuring out what it all means is proving somewhat harder for many in the commentariat. I’m going to use this column to try to fix that.