The Other Hand
By Jim Power & Chris Johns
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Economics and finance demystified.
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An ex-UK Cabinet Minister suggests bussing refugees to the Irish border in order to show the "pious" Irish government who is the boss.
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May 01, 2024 |
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If war is coming to Europe, is membership of the EU and neutrality mutually inconsistent?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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What will the next generation think of us? Taking the other side of IMF forecast bets.
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Irish house prices up again. Time to change the global growth narrative? Markets, the IMF & The Economist all have bought into stronger growth & higher interest rates.
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Will Ireland go Dutch? Prolonged coalition negotiations likely if no party gets more than 30% of the GE vote.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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It's beginning to look a lot like the 1930s
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Higher for longer US interest rates = higher for longer mortgage rates in Ireland and U.K.
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Irish reunification: the costs and other issues - many that haven't even been thought about
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Getting ready for war in Europe? Competing narrative fallacies about markets.
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Inflation falls again. But interest rates cut hopes fade. World economy fails to land - takes off instead.
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Is free trade always and everywhere a good thing? Get ready for the 2nd China shock - the first one gave us Trump, Brexit and the populist plague
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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'I didn't leave Fine Gael, they left me'. In conversation with leading journalist Sarah Carey
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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House prices firmly on the rise again. Leo exits.
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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War in Gaza, Ukraine and....Sudan. Give every new born a €5000 Global Equity ETF. First BoJ hike in 17 years
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Signs of an economic acceleration? What's wrong with 4 - 5% interest rates? Zero rates were caused by crisis - we need a dose of normal
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Are stock markets blowing another bubble? Are the comparisons with the dot.com era real or apparent?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Bumper corporate profits consistent with a winner-takes-all world. The budget circus starts early
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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The war on drugs: lost but still worth fighting? Trump's poll lead widens, Sinn Fein's narrows.
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The non-recession recession. Weak exports: isolated or canary in the coal-mine?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Is Ireland in for a long period of no government? A good or bad thing? Banking needs much more competition.
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Trifecta of dysfunction. House prices rise again. Could the next move in US interest rates be up?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Biden's 'cognitive decline'. A conversation about staying well - or not - into old age with Professor of Neuroscience Shane O'Mara
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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In conversation with one of our critics. Sort of. Engaging with people who think differently. With the emphasis on engagement
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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What is RTE for? Why is Sinn Fein arguing for an amnesty for law breakers? Global politics, conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism.
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Inflation surprises of both kinds. Why target 2%? Why not 8%? Productivity growth - why it is so vital.
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Trump's isolationism is a dangerous mirage. Just ask Korea. Is Germany deindustrialising?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Is the world economy re-accelerating? Populists politicians can't run a bath. All the latest data.
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Dr Strangelove returns? Dysfunction in Washington reaches new extremes. While the economy booms.
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Magical thinking everywhere: IMF forecasts, abolition of The Irish Sea Border and much else.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Reasons to be cheerful - all things considered, we need them. Why are financial markets so exuberant?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Authoritarian populists threaten to take over everywhere - including Ireland. Why?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Bitter Lessons of Brexit - they haven't gone away you know. Was Darwin wrong? Time for gold to shine?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The return of Trump. Davos Concludes. Can we debate immigration rationally?
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Irish GDP to shrink for 2nd year? How stupid are financial markets? Graduates join the Trump party
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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What you believe about economic growth is probably wrong - because we know surprisingly little about. And signs of slowing growth are, well, growing.
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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China wants Taiwan - an important election approaches. Will Trump gift Ukraine and Taiwan? Latest inflation disappoints - markets react accordingly.
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Worst start to the year this century for stocks and bonds. Geopolitics to replace interest rates as main driver of markets?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Looking backwards, looking forwards. What we got right and what we will get wrong.
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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2024: The biggest election year in history?
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Three central banks, two very different messages on interest rates
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Is the housing correction over before its started? Lots of interest rate cuts now priced in - there could be lots of disappointment
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Wow! For once, some real good news: those weight loss drugs could be the real deal. And, potentially, even a bigger deal than even originally thought!
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Oh Canada! Jim promotes Ireland on a tour of the East Coast. Exchequer returns that say boom and GDP data that say recession.
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Lower inflation astonishes central bankers but comes as no surprise to everyone else. A week of obituaries.
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Trump, Orban, Meloni, Le Pen, Farage: the right unites around immigration
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Riots & unemployed young men. At a time of full employment. Tech & export weakness not (yet?) showing up in the jobs data
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Cry for Argentina. NIMBY's should vote for Sinn Fein. When will we declare the housing crisis over?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Economies are weakening - latest data. Markets start to think that interest rates are already too high
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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The 30 year war continues. History explains the latest battle. The Tories never disappoint.
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Cameron uncancelled. Rishi's change agenda unravels. Culture wars over?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Why is everything in the UK so crap? Why is zero growth now a good outcome?
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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The return of the Don: a 2nd term for Trump? What US autocracy might mean for the world
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Stolen Identity. Our new politics: good ideas taken to ludicrous and sinister extremes
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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The end of the Corporation tax boom? Economies now slowing everywhere. More big moves in interest rates.
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Can Elon Musk upload himself? Is ChatGPT eating itself? What is consciousness? And so much more!
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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GDP declines - so what? An interest rate cut looms on the horizon? What if oil goes to $200?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Rugby World Cup: the final. Where is the game now? And look forward to Leinster's season
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Catastrophic cyber attack within the next year? Floods, climate change & the limits of government intervention.
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Israel, Gaza & talking past each other. Too many historians are talking about 1914. And more Fed and ECB criticism
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Rugby World Cup semis: a good advert for rugby? Nathan Johns of the Irish Times takes us through all the actions and all of the issues
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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The world is more anti-Semitic than it is prepared to admit: discuss. And disagree. A lot.
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Podcast Special! A deep dive into Budget 2024, recorded at an Octabuild Webinar.
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The world becomes ever more dangerous. Joining dots from Ukraine to Azerbaijan to Israel to Taiwan: how bad will it get?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Luck, opposition moments of brilliance and a couple of Irish errors: these are the tiny margins
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Budget 2024, US & Irish inflation and the Middle East
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Israel & war: more storm clouds. ESRI adds economic reasons for caution. US jobs market miracle?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Ireland demolish Scotland: Nathan Johns of the Irish Times discusses the weekend's Rugby World Cup
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Fairness, inequality and redistribution. Many of us think we live in a 'winner takes all world'. Yet the clamour for redistribution remains muted.
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Does the world have brain damage? Neuroscientist Prof. Shane O'Mara discussions right brain problems and is a lot more optimistic than Chris & Jim
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Ireland: Brexit's biggest beneficiary? Farage close to complete takeover of UK Tories. EU house prices show chunky falls.
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The gathering storm: should the budget be cancelled? Oil prices and bond yields going up, again, are economy killers.
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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More Irish people than ever: a very good thing. J P Morgan boss muses about 7% interest rates: a vey bad thing
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Did Ireland deserve to beat S. Africa? Nathan Johns of the Irish Times takes us through the vital stats
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Big moves in financial markets as the 'higher for longer' interest rate narrative takes hold. We call BS.
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The Irish Economy: still growing but slowing. Finance Minister for a day. UK big inflation surprise
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Rugby World Cup - latest episode with Nathan Johns of the Irish Times.
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Oil heading towards $100 may mean the good news on inflation is over. With more bad news on interest rates to come.
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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A radical suggestion for budget 2024: cut taxes for the under 35s. Another ECB mistake in the offing? Dynamic beer pricing has arrived.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Is this the beginning of the end of the (corporation) tax boom? The most intensely political budget looms
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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The Rugby World Cup Begins! A belter of an opening match followed by almost two months of the ultimate rugby festival.
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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A neuroscientist and an economist walk into a bar
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Inflation falls - then rises because of official policy measures to boost prices. Followed by budget 2024 measures to mitigate the cost of living crisis
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Abolish planning laws to cure housing crisis? Lessons from bombing London. Monetary dinosaurs spotted in Germany.
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Unemployment cured, Irish style. EU slips into recession? The UK is not London.
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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China: it's getting serious. What does it mean for the world?
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Bond market crash - why this is so important. China crisis? Our ignorance about inflation.
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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More dystopian fiction from the ITimes. UK inflation horrors. Italian anti-business right-wing politics.
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Truthiness, populism and stochastic parrots. Think you know how your brain works? Neuroscientist Professor Shane O'Mara takes us through the exciting and fascinating developments in how we think.
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Why not spend the €65bn on social housing? Should we rescue people from their financial folly? Biden builds on Trump's policies.
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Ireland and the BBC. Banks deserve everything they are about to get. China deflates?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Mortgage rates and savings rates: banks go for the better PR. Are their mega profits sustainable?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Turbulence over Dublin Airport. EV sales take off but might lose power.
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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A much bigger story than RTE goes unreported. Lots of economic data confuses more than it clarifies
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Big week for interest rates, but is the peak getting further away with recent rises in commodity prices? Global economic data is painting a very mixed picture.
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Is Putin trying to get your mortgage rate up? Food prices under threat again. China is caught between a rock and a hard place.
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Ireland booms or just avoids recession? Falling exports - technical or threat to growth and public finances?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Has Ryan Tubridy done the nation a great service? If inflation is coming back down all on its own, why raise interest rates? The UK is literally getting sick.
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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If central bankers get their way, your house price could fall - perhaps by a lot. The many mysteries of modern economics.
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Ireland's embarrassment of riches? Tax revenues explode in the first half of 2023. What to do with them?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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RTE, celebrity pay and hopeless governance. Bidenomics: some surprising consequences. The usual suspects tell McGrath not to cut taxes. He will ignore them. .
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Interest rates start to bite. House prices, obviously, but also in some unexpected places. UK water companies just one example - plenty of others.
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Seven years on from the Brexit referendum. Still as controversial as ever, despite the evidence saying there is no controversy. Dealing with complexity in a world that excludes experts.
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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The UK: in a deep hole and still digging. The riskiness of the mortgage. Brexit: Good for Ireland?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Fretting over Irish inflation completely misses the point of the Euro? Things could be worse: UK has much lower trend growth, much higher core inflation - stagflation nation.
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Chat GPT skills now needed for entry level finance jobs. Extraordinary times for a few US companies. Gas prices spike - hopefully only for a short while
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Ukraine floods, Putin waits for Trump. Broken windows policing - why we are paying the price for Obama's inaction.
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Is the housing crisis solvable? How much is it to do with a population that has nearly doubled? Will S. County Dublin have to be told to add an extra three stories?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Boom or recession: data says both! What's going on?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Don't poke Twitter! Saying nice things about Ireland is not allowed! Biden runs rings around the Republicans over the debt ceiling. Lower inflation brings interest rate hope to Europe.
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Germany in recession, US growth up, even the UK is doing better. Working from home - what happens if there is a recession: power back to the employers?
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May 28, 2023 |
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Banks making out like bandits. Energy companies making out like banks. Wholesale Energy prices down again.
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May 25, 2023 |
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Does Leinster's battering by Rochelle carry any lessons for Ireland's chances at the World Cup? The Rugby Special edition of the pod is back by popular demand!
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May 23, 2023 |
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Guns, babies and Jesus: America tries to export its culture wars to the UK. A debt bomb in the housing market? "Brexit has failed", but Farage is still here.
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May 21, 2023 |
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Debt bomb to be defused? Latest housing data point to a proper slowdown. Latest EU Commission forecasts: part of the monolithic, gloomy consensus
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May 18, 2023 |
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Food inflation: curable by shouting at retailers? US slow banking crisis rumbles on. Uk avoids recession but not boiled frog syndrome t
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May 13, 2023 |
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The Finance Minister continues to drown in cash. Unemployment below 4% - only 2nd time in Irish history. Big week for interest rates: are we there yet??
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May 07, 2023 |
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The US has found a common enemy to unite against: China. AI is not going to kill you - not yet at least. The Fed will get the slowdown it wants, maybe even recession. Europe does not realise just how far the policy agenda has changed in DC.
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May 05, 2023 |
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Michael D and a little knowledge. Another one-off banking failure in the US. Getting to the top of the mountain and finding nothing there.
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May 03, 2023 |
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Bumper tech profits = yet more corporate taxes? Ireland is really a small economy with 10 large companies. Biden & the debt ceiling.
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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'Greedflation' - are we being price gouged by the usual suspects? At least tech profits bode well for Irish corporation tax take. Another 'isolated' bank in trouble
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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What is Ireland going to do with all its money? Do a Norway or a UK? Oil prices reverse. AI accelerates.
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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China moves to the world's centre stage. British journalism: offensive or xenophobic about Ireland? The government says the Irish economy will remain in rude health
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Who has the Special Relationship, UK or Ireland? Macron's foreign policy fail. Are businesses using inflation as an excuse to hike profits?
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Global economic gloom from the IMF - but has it just issued the biggest buy signal since March 2009? And, "You get who you elect." Be careful
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Global recession increasingly in the economic narrative - but not in the numbers. IMF spectacularly gloomy about the next 5 years. AI rides to rescue growth?
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Is the tax system fair? How much is enough?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Ireland's tax machine stays in top gear. When are tax cuts self-financing? Global property price data deteriorating. Commercial property is a big worry and threat.
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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House prices crack? Banking crisis over? AI: history in the making or a big meh?
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Double whammy for the world economy? Interest rates to fall very soon? Have the limits to democracy been reached?
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Financial crisis 2.0: here we go again. Boris Johnson's Pound Shop Watergate is the end of the psychodrama
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Grand Slam Special! Reflections on Ireland's first Dublin Grand Slam win. And a chat about Sports journalism and the future of print & other media.
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Quantitative destruction: Has the ECB made another gigantic error? Hope and fear: we hope the banking crisis is over, we fear that is not.
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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The Sporting Edition! Some Cheltenham, a little bit of Cricket and a lot of Rugby
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Three failed US banks, one global financial problem. US bank regulation has failed, reminding us that banks are still not fit for purpose?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Gary Lineker and the great BBC fail. A big bank fails in the US: canary or nothingburger?
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Has Brexit Fever finally been broken? All things Windsor Agreement, all things Brexit - with Professor Chris Grey.
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Housing evictions: politically toxic, emotionally troubling, personal tragedy. But necessary? The 'Godot' economy. Banks as bandits. Again.
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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How high will mortgage rates go? Good economic news with bad inflation numbers suggest much higher interest rates in the pipeline. Irish economy continues to power ahead. How would you invest €6bn?
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Windsor Framework or Windsor Knot? It looks like a big deal. But the DUP still complain.
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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China's message to Russia: no nukes and don't lose. More bad inflation news. Will central banks break the global property market?
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Big positive economic surprises - even in Europe. Even in the UK! What's wrong with a little wage inflation? Interest rate expectations move up again.
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The big question: buy a house now or wait? Interest rates do look to be going higher for longer. Lessons for nationalist parties elsewhere with the demise of Nicola Sturgeon?
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Everybody is getting more optimistic about the world economy. The inflation fight could get tricky from here - not good for interest rate prospects. Brexiteers disappear down the conspiracy rabbit hole
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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AI, ChatGPT3 (and 4): hype or revolutionary? Will Microsoft eat Google’s lunch? Plus the latest economic news and our thoughts about the monetary nutcases at the ECB
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Rugby special! As the 6 Nations gets underway we speak to Irish Times sports journalist Nathan Johns. Why were Ireland so good and Wales so poor? Prospects for the next match and beyond.
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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What recession? US economy confuses everybody. So does the head of the ECB. The disconnect between the UK and its stock market. The Irish tax machine refuses to slow down.
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Three years of Brexit, three more years of Brexit BS. Eurozone economy still doing better than expected. IMF forecasts Russia to grow and the UK to shrink.
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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US economy refuses to go into recession. Will anybody notice the better Irish housing data? Shinners hoist their own petards. UK opens up another futile front on the war on drugs.
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Energy prices down again. Eurozone economy starts growing but the UK does not. Politicians in difficulties on both sides of the Irish Sea: two ex-finance minister under fire. One will keep his current job.
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Donohoe's expenses row: materiality, proportionality & hypocrisy. Is Sinn Fein really an all-Ireland party? Tech & Banks in trouble?
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Latest economic data. The big housing questions: does the government understand the true nature of the housing crisis? Does Sinn Fein?
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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More good news on inflation. More good news for the Irish economy. The UK: still digging in a vey deep hole. Amazing insights into the state of US politics.
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Is the economic outlook really as awful as everyone says? NIMBYs are active on both sides of the Irish Sea - both left and right say don't build here.
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Some good news on inflation, better news on gas prices, same old news on Irish tax revenues and the UK's very deep hole
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Looking back and looking forward. Where will forecasters be wrong for 2023? Just how bad has Brexit been for the UK? Mind your language!
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Japan springs a major surprise for global markets. EU trying to cap energy prices. Broken Britain part 42.
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Podcast special! In conversation with Ben Watts. A deep dive into the energy world with all of the obvious, topical, questions. Build more wind farms!
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Central bankers spook markets. Will they overdo it and cause a crisis? Global housing crash? The NHS in 'systemic failure'.
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Has the peak in inflation finally arrived? Watch what politicians do, not what they say: Fine Gael is a left-wing party. Germany's Ukraine inconsistencies. Listeners reviews and comments.
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Irish inflation falls but electricity prices rise 63%. Food prices are up, as are farmer's profits. Where is the urgency to get cheaper energy? energy security? OpenAI's Chatbot will change the world.
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The lean, mean, green tax machine that is the Irish economy. The US is forecast to be in slowing but isn't. The EU is. Has the $ turned? The logic & ethics of the oil price cap.
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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A conversation with Noah Smith. Polymath, renaissance man: neither description does justice to this extraordinary writer. Intelligence, wit and wisdom in abundance. And optimism.
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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A bubble in predicting the end of the world? Why the latest data suggests that Armageddon isn't immediately obvious. Podcasting and freedom of speech.
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Centuries of the patriarchy. Listening to our listeners. What's going on in China? Latest news on the economy
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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'Failed State' narrative gets another boost from record employment numbers. The strange behaviour of MEPs and oil prices. A solution for inequality
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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New analysis & forecasts from the OECD. A new narrative for the UK: Brexit is bad enough but that's by no means the only thing going wrong. Maidan & Kennedy anniversaries remembered.
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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A special edition of the Pod! Professor Chris Grey, leading commentator, blogger and broadcaster joins us for an in-depth discussion of where we are, 6 1/2 years after the referendum.
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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The UK: run by two posh boys who don't know the price of milk? That UK-Ireland economic gap is truly remarkable. Why is the World Cup in Qatar?
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Ireland: best placed economy in the world to withstand the coming recession? UK: how to get really angry about political lying and BS economics.
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Crypto crash & Musk mutters about Twitter's potential bankruptcy. How bad could this be for Ireland. Stockmarkets don't seem to care - they are up on abating interest rate & inflation worries. Premature?
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Tech woes continue. Elon Musk wants to charge us - what a strange concept. The end of the global property price bubble? The end of the crypto bubble?
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Should Ireland give the UK a dig out? Are central banks about to blow decades of hard won credibility and cause an unnecessary economic slump?
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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What do Liz Truss and Sinn Fein have in common? Fantasy politics continue in the UK but does economic policy now make sense?
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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The end the tech boom? The end of Ireland's corporation tax boom? How sick is the social media business model? Cracks appear in housing.
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Sunak: destined for failure. Is Xi Jing-Ping doing a Liz Truss? Drone wars. Falling wholesale energy prices.
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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How did it come to this? Is the UK now a banana republic? Can anything be salvaged from the wreckage.
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Liz Truss is toast. The ramifications for all of us are becoming clear: the global financial system is creaking badly.
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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What is going on in the UK? Will Liz Truss be gone by Christmas? Is this the start of another financial crisis?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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London's most expensive house up for sale. 'Lehman moments' can crop up in the most unexpected of places. Is Londongrad next on Putin;s annexation list?
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Ireland is drowning in cash. The UK isn't. The Conservative party is ungovernable - maybe all this is connected..
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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A tale of two islands. One well run, the other not so much.
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Remember the PIGS? Now they are the UPIGS. The UK becomes a submerging market. The political centre is collapsing everywhere.
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Budget 2023. Infantilised societies. Being poor in Ireland means you are 63% better off than your equivalent in the UK. Central bankers playing Tarzan risk swinging into a tree.
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Absolutely nobody thinks that Ireland needs a tax cut. Absolutely everybody thinks somebody else's taxes should go up. Is King Charles up to the task? Probably not.
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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The US 'Civil War' & the kip that is San Fransicko. Macho central bankers? Dystopian Ireland: edition 42.
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Central banks warn of significant and painful rate hikes to come. Another Lehman moment? Time for policymakers to wake up to the enormity of the energy crisis.
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Is Ireland really so unfair? Some facts that will change no populist minds. Danger ahead from PM Truss. Time to worry about China?
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Rents go nuts on both sides of the Atlantic. Shinners display their dislike of anyone making a few quid. Some rare good news about the US economy. Some less good news for the UK.
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Is Ireland destined to follow the populist path? Energy bills to hit €5000? BoE outlook is terrifying. Liz Truss is the continuity Johnson PM. Pelosi: right or wrong? Windfall energy profit taxes?
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Recession on both sides of the Atlantic - so stock markets go up. "Cakeism goes full gateau" in UK politics
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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How high will European interest rates go? How much of a mistake is the ECB about to make? Italy's existential threat to the euro; the UK's existential problem. The problems with free market ideology.
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Britain's broken politics: the Tories are a pound-shop version of Trump's Republican party. The world's inflation problem just keeps getting worse.
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Johnson's populism has wrecked the UK. Fixing it is beyond any of his likely successors. Ireland's peculiar populism - Shinners in power but not (yet) in office - will lead to a fiscal crisis.
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Rip-off Ireland? The end of he celebrity central banker. £ sterling crisis on he way? Will global property follow Bitcoin & stock markets down? BJ stories just get worse.
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Everyone is forecasting recession. Be careful what you wish for. UK politics make great entertainment for the outside observer but try living there.
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Interest rate rises everywhere: recession next? House prices forecast to fall 20% in at least one country. Why a sovereign wealth fund would be a good idea.
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Interest rates set to rise by more than expected: will they kill the housing market? Is the ECB about to make yet another big mistake? 'Boris Johnson is like a shopping trolley with a wonky wheel'.
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Why does nothing work any more? Economic weather warnings raised from storm to hurricane. A Dublin restaurant experience. Gate 355: Dublin Airport's entrance to hell.
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Ireland booms, UK grinds to a halt. US housing market joins Canada's and starts to slow - signs of things to come?
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May 27, 2022 |
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Rents & the housing crisis. Stock markets in a different kind of crisis: strong signal that global recession is now the big worry for investors.
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May 20, 2022 |
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Is the solution to the housing crisis both simple and obvious? Will higher interest rates burst the global and Irish housing bubbles? Dark warnings of financial stress from crypto.
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May 14, 2022 |
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They haven't gone away you know: water charges. Ireland's dystopia: incomes up, poverty down, inequality down. Truths that can never be told.
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May 11, 2022 |
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An economic storm is heading our way. Ireland is in much better shape than the UK to deal with it. But everyone will be hit.
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May 07, 2022 |
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Electric stats, carbon capture and why we need to take energy price rises on the chin. We are repeating the mistakes of the 1970s. Odd happenings in every corner of financial markets. Trouble ahead?
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May 03, 2022 |
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How much damage has social media done? What will Elon do? What should we do? Stock markets look to be in a bit of bother.
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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'Aggressive' rises in interest rates on the cards. So is showering together - energy conservation is now imperative. Putin looks unwell? Some survival tactics in tough times.
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Global growth forecasts slashed by IMF and World Bank. Life in Ireland isn't the dystopian nightmare many journos and politicians say it is. Shinners slip in the polls: start of a welcome trend?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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'Crisis upon crisis means the end of globalisation'. Is the dollar heading for parity against the euro? Which large country has an inflation rate of 62%. How high will US (and our) interest rates go?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Global recession on the way? Via a wage-price spiral? Criminals running the UK government? Covid corner: lab leak or not?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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The Other Hand returns! Ukraine, inflation and why we should shut off Russian gas now.
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Ukraine: fascists are not just in the Kremlin. Sanctions should be expanded to a total ban on Russian oil & gas. Central bankers now dealing with fundamental uncertainty, not just risk.
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Ukraine: humanitarian disaster and global economic shock. Domestic energy bills to triple? Recession inevitable? Policy mistakes inevitable? Is the West as decadent as the despots think?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Ukraine: it's existential for both their way of life and ours.
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Ukraine: are financial markets getting it wrong?
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Jim denies going soft on the Shinners. Ukraine, sanctions & energy prices: the potential economic implications. Is a global recession on the cards? Who would be an economic policy maker today?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Latest Economic news: Ireland is booming. The price of a pint revisited: it's gonna go up a lot. Ireland really is an expensive country - why?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Brexit is dramatically altering Irish trade. Demography might be destiny but don't try forecasting it. Housing & voting for the Shinners.
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Inflation, inflation, inflation. US used car prices lead the way - up 41%. Wage inflation: problem or solution to inequality? Europe and US now on a very divergent interest rate path?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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The Father Ted approach to policy. MMT - Magic Money Tree? Populism: playing to tribal & atavistic instincts - be very careful.
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Britain's meltdown. Interest hikes for everyone. Facebook, Apple and Amazon: winner takes even more. Is Facebook for oldies only? Tax luck, not genius.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Electric cars go mainstream. Tech earnings still booming - put windfall taxes on those profits in a Sovereign Wealth Fund. Euro interest rates up twice this year?
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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We are nowhere near building enough houses - blame the NIMBYS. Pension or Party? Jim does damp January
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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IMF admits a big forecast error - stagflation beckons? Britain is no longer a serious country - beware electing populist politicians bearing simple solutions.
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Stock markets to fall 50%? Bitcoin signals risk ahead. Disappearing cash. Inflation: cost-of-living crisis looms. Who will replace Boris Johnson?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Bitcoin & Crypto: a response to our critics. Wealth taxes: now is the time? We try to avoid it but it isn't possible not to talk about Johnson.
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Our top financial tip for 2022! What about crypto? Johnson's latest gamble - could it save him? Covid is so much worse in Ireland, why? And an apology for tech glitch.
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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America's next civil war: has it started? 10% of Londoners had Covid on New year's Eve. If hospitals fall over, blame the anti-vaxxers.
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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A Covid rant. Ireland is doing very well on a number of key metrics. Foreign investors like a lot about the country
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Higher mortgage rates on the way? Blame Covid. Even we didn't see the 8.00pm evidence-free shutdown. It's their party and they all go when they want to.
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Tory rebels hate Plan B. Just wait til they see Plan C. A look at the deteriorating Covid situation and what the data says right now. Christmas and Boris both under threat.
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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UK and German politics: 3 ring circus compared to grown-up governance. Inflation: Summers ponders a US recession yet US equities are at all all-time high.
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Boom! Tax revenues up strongly again. Is the stage set for giveaway budgets? Where do conspiracy theorists get their beliefs? Transitory inflation is no more: it's just inflation.
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Brexit and the end of the UK land-bridge? COVID: Omicron policy response becomes Moronic. What drives anti-vaxxers?
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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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.
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Housing & vultures. Covid restrictions & revolts. Marijuana - there's an app for that.
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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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?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Forecasts for the economy double. Inflation also up a lot. Does debt matter? Shinners in government - mind your pension.
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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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?
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Bank of England stumbles and sterling falls. The tax boom is getting boomier.
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Global inflation and supply chain problems are getting worse. Are higher interest rates the answer? Does COP26 need a touch of CBT?
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Mafia-style elites govern us all. But are they making a mistake?
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Economists still don't know what causes inflation? Is it, today, a nice problem to have? Can Johnson keep his electoral coalition intact?
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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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.
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Back to the future? That 70s show...again? Reflections on how the age of abundance may be coming to an end.
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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A budget that butters many small parsnips but buys no votes.
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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The political economy of the budget: 'One of the most prosperous countries on earth' or 'a dystopian hell-hole'? The answer matters. A lot.
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Booming tax revenues and difficult political choices. The madness of King Boris: He's invented anti-business Neanderthal Thatcherism.
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Global economy screeching to a halt? How bad will it get? The first official acknowledgement that Brexit might just have something to do with British chaos. Brexit did, after all, mean Brexit.
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Is an energy crisis about to derail the world economy? Brexit as it was foretold. Time to get real - and honest - about the environment
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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In conversation with journalist, author and broadcaster Duncan Weldon. '200 years of Muddling Through.' Why is the UK in its current state? Look at where it has come from.
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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China crisis? Cost of living crisis? It's a gas. Ireland in 2021 viewed from the 1980s: nobody would believe it.
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Time to abolish the budget? Fat chance. Take fiscal policy away from politicians! Why is the system so unreformable?
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Remembering 9/11
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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'The rise of the illiberal left'. The uselessness of economic forecasts. Your winter heating bills are going up - a lot.
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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The economy rebounds. Housing plans: how flimsy are the foundations? A surprising linkage: inequality causes low interest rates and high house prices. Monetary policy dominance over?
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Housing: a deep crisis met only by shallow thinking. Restaurants are closing because of labour shortages. The UK is short 100,000 lorry drivers. Higher pay means we have to pay more.
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Stockmarket jitters: the start of the big one? Chinese attacks on corporate titans. Questioning 'conspicuous environmentalism'.
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Anger and fact-free belief about house prices. Is this the age of anti-austerity? Brexit: still happening as predicted. Afghanistan: if the exit was inevitable surely the method wasn't?
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Berliners are revolting (over rents). Latest economic news. The politicisation of the environment. Where are Ireland's looney toons?
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Post-pandemic economies: what will they look like? More on house prices and interest rates: normality means higher rates. So things won't be normal? Australia quietly abandons zero covid?
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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Resuming International travel. What's China up to? Latest IMF views on the world economy. Young people and their pitchforks.
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Is it time to take a 30 year fixed mortgage? Latest update on the economy. Covid corner: 1200 scientists say the UK is wrong.
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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Hitting the beach after July 19th? Be prepared for a shock if you are renting a car. Supply chain problems are worsening - not just for autos. Johnson's gamble looks like he's going 'all in'.
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Johnson's biggest gamble yet. Eurozone economy finally takes off - but for how long? Why do some journalists make it so personal?
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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The UK government and NPHET couldn't have more different views of the world. Only one of them can be right.
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Scientists say jump, government asks: how high? Should policy makers not consider the bigger picture? Will young people become revolting?
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Brexit Unfolded: in conversation with author Professor Chris Grey on the publication of his much awaited book.
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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End of the reflation trade? The mysterious NPHET opposition to antigen testing. Cracks in Boris Johnson's wall.
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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The delta variant is coming your way, but so is the populist plague. The G7 and the return of America: perhaps temporary but certainly welcome. A pointless trade deal with Australia.
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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G7 is not just about corporate taxes: the environment is even more important. EU and UK fall out over sausages. Out and about in London and Dublin
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Booming economies but where have all the workers gone? UK heading for big Covid trouble? Why do economists love property taxes?
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Archbishop McQuaid's ghost stalks our streets. Beware the inner traffic warden. Where did the virus really come from? OECD ups its forecasts.
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Reopening the economy but playing fast and loose with the common travel area? Hair & beauty expertise in a surprising quarter. Stock up on breakfast stuff?
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May 28, 2021 |
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The future of house prices. The ketchup economy. The price of another pint.
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May 24, 2021 |
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Housing policy: gifting power to Sinn Fein? Is neo-liberalism dead? Brexit & trade: UK can't say all is well between GB and EU but not between GB & NI.
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May 19, 2021 |
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House prices: populist posturing will make the problem worse. Global and Irish Inflation: already worse than feared? Covid corner: delays to vaccines costs lives.
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May 14, 2021 |
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UK Politics; US Jobs Disappointment; Shortages, Chips & Sex Toys
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May 10, 2021 |
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Are markets mad? Bits of the economy are booming. Bidenomics is about much more than economics. Was zero covid ever a possibility?
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May 05, 2021 |
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Europe says Covid scarring is forever: America disagrees. US economy booms, Europe is in recession. Tech profits: US has them, Europe does not.
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Counting the cost of Covid - properly. What could have been done better? And proper post-Covid economic policy
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Taxes going up in the US and Ireland; EU economy takes off; Ponies stuck in Brexit limbo
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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SMEs face many headwinds but represent future of the economy. A conversation with Neil McDonnell, CEO of ISME
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Suppression of competition and debate.
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Ignore the headlines & hype about taxation of Apple, Google, Amazon & the rest: here are the surprising facts
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Irish business says the outlook is getting much better; inflation and the threat to the recovery; pandemic solidarity taxes: an idea whose time has come?
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Biden is coming for your corporation taxes; more on experts who lie and experts who just get it wrong
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Spinning the Covid Data on Outdoor Risks; Review of Q1 Economies & Markets; New IMF Forecasts for the World Economy
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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A hedge fund in trouble. Again. Trouble ahead for all of us? And a radical suggestion: move the capital from Dublin to Belfast.
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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A minor Covid rant, the surprising Suez Canal, disagreeing (a bit) with Martin Sandbu, legalising recreational drugs in NY State.
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Once more with feeling: asking the tough Covid questions
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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A lockdown cry of pain, perhaps even protest; Varadkar tries his hand at economics
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Is the EU facing another existential crisis? Vaccine and economic incompetence.
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Biden's boom; Is the 12 year bull market in equities over?; Davy implosion
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Global economy on fire: Biden's New New Deal. What does it mean for the world?
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Connecting Irish Unemployment, Exchequer Returns, Rishi Sunak & GNI*
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Banks, banking and branch closures
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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The Other Hand
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Feb 28, 2021 |