Stagflation with no sign of the stag. Economic growth resurges, at least in the US - perhaps to remarkable levels. Dollar strength no deterrent to weekend shopping trips to NYC.

Housing & vultures. Covid restrictions & revolts. Marijuana - there's an app for that.

Panto season starts early: Covid, unlike Cinderella, only comes out at midnight. Apparently. Out and about in Dublin. If the game is truly rigged which way to go: extreme right or left?

Forecasts for the economy double. Inflation also up a lot. Does debt matter? Shinners in government - mind your pension.

One year on from the first vaccine. Stock markets signalling all is now fine: rational markets or just another bubble? Why is there no ambition for Dublin?

Bank of England stumbles and sterling falls. The tax boom is getting boomier.

Global inflation and supply chain problems are getting worse. Are higher interest rates the answer? Does COP26 need a touch of CBT?

Mafia-style elites govern us all. But are they making a mistake?

Economists still don't know what causes inflation? Is it, today, a nice problem to have? Can Johnson keep his electoral coalition intact?

The state of the economy: nobody knows anything (part 42).

Booming tax revenues on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sunak & Johnson in conflict or just setting up pre-election tax cuts? Strange economics of financing de-carbonisation.

Back to the future? That 70s show...again? Reflections on how the age of abundance may be coming to an end.