Cliff Taylor

Cliff Taylor

Managing Editor

Cliff Taylor is an Irish Times writer and Managing Editor. He specialises in economics and finance.

Cliff Taylor: Ireland will have to address the deeply unequal hit from inflation

A deep divide exists in how different households are being affected and the Government’s response needs to reflect this

How did the Republic become the EU’s second most expensive country?

Over the last decade prices have crept further and further over the EU average – intensifying problems as inflation hits home

Economic dialogue will do little to help the Government as it faces hard choices

Cost of living crisis continues to build and the public sector pay talks have broken down

Fighting inflation is an impossible job in an era of political populism

If people do not believe the burden is being equally shared, then trouble will follow

There are loads of job vacancies in Ireland, but where are the workers?

Smart Money: Employers are complaining of unprecedented staff shortages. New research gives some clues as to how we got here

Maybe Ireland has discovered the magic formula on taxes

Despite the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine the cash just keeps rolling in to the exchequer

The squeezed middle: myth or reality ?

New evidence casts light on how middle earners can be caught by Ireland's tax and rent support systems

Income tax surge could be sustained, fiscal watchdog finds

Average tax rate paid on incomes is rising, says Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Cliff Taylor: Threats facing economy now could put Covid in the shade

The economy is a lot more solid than it was in 2008, but dangers abound

Do you get enough in return for the taxes you pay?

Smart Money: A new report from Ictu shines a light on ‘the social wage’

Economic advantages of protocol for North slowly seeping away

Cliff Taylor: Long-term costs could be significant as politics again trumps economics

Cliff Taylor: Which mortgage borrowers will be hit first by interest rate hikes hit?

Smart Money: There are some options for those with loans to protect themselves

Cliff Taylor: The penny has dropped that free money party is over

US interest rates rose, stock markets took fright and Government borrowing costs marched ever higher

It’s happening – interest rates are on the way up

Smart Money: Inflation is becoming more entrenched and rate fears are growing

Cliff Taylor: Rules of the new economy are being written in green

No one will invest in a country seen to be a climate laggard