Business Highlights

Tax avoidance?

A problem with treating tax avoidance as unethical behaviour is deciding where the boundary of avoidance versus compliance should be drawn

Focus on cybercrime

Crime has always adapted to technological innovation

How farming and fracking changed the US oil industry

Thanks to corn ethanol and fracking, the US is now on the cusp of achieving energy independence

Euro zone banks told to get their house in order

ECB supervisor Daniele Nouy tells euro zone banks to clean up their balance sheets

What is the future of work?

The start of a new working week is a good time to consider just what the future of work will look like

Why are Irish electricity prices so high?

Brainstorm - a look at why Irish electricity prices are so high

Interview - ECB won't target exchange rates

Benoit Coeuré, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, warns on currency wars and Brexit

Repeat offenders

Why banks engage in illegal conduct

What is Davos all about?

Davos is shorthand for the World Economic Forum (WEF)

Five questions for the ECB

The ECB meets this week against a backdrop of heightened speculation over when it will end its vast stimulus and signal a rise in interest rates from record lows.

Apple's US tax bill

Apple's $38 billion US tax bill explained

Saving for a mortgage

Where should people put their money to save for a mortgage

New 'open banking' directive

Sinead Ovenden, Partner with PWC, explains how a new EU 'open banking' directive could radically change how we manage our money

Is there going to be a full-scale cyber war in 2018?

So long - CEOs who departed this year

A look at some of the leading Irish and international chief executives who left their positions this year

2017- Year in Review

Take a look back at 2017

Three months that shook Ryanair

A look at how cancellations sparked a pilot revolt at Ryanair

'Miserable' Ryanair mood

Ingrid Miley, Industry and Employment Correspondent, reports on a secret recording in which Ryanair's new chief operating officer vows to treat pilots 'like human beings'

Inside Apple's Irish operations

Will Goodbody's visit was a rare opportunity in the context of Apple's historical relationship with the Irish media

Net neutrality

The US's FCC decision may unwind the web, writes Will Goodbody

Doing business the Ryanair way

Ryanair is an organisation that seems to do everything wrong, but it still thrives

Brexit Breakthrough Quotes

The UK and the EU have agreed a provisional deal on the border and other issues that will allow work to move on to the second stage of Brexit negotiations.

Ireland's Brexit conundrum

Ireland faces two options at the European Council meeting next week and neither is particularly palatable

Why the National Development Plan is doomed for failure

A look at why the country's National Development Plan is doomed for failure

What are you getting when you buy gadget insurance?