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Boom or recession: data says both! What's going on?
29 mins; June 05, 2023
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.
30 mins; June 02, 2023
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?
35 mins; May 28, 2023
Banks making out like bandits. Energy companies making out like banks. Wholesale Energy prices down again.
35 mins; May 25, 2023
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!
30 mins; May 23, 2023
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.
34 mins; May 21, 2023
Debt bomb to be defused? Latest housing data point to a proper slowdown. Latest EU Commission forecasts: part of the monolithic, gloomy consensus
32 mins; May 18, 2023
Food inflation: curable by shouting at retailers? US slow banking crisis rumbles on. Uk avoids recession but not boiled frog syndrome t
34 mins; May 13, 2023
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??
28 mins; May 07, 2023
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.
40 mins; May 05, 2023
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.
37 mins; May 03, 2023
Bumper tech profits = yet more corporate taxes? Ireland is really a small economy with 10 large companies. Biden & the debt ceiling.
37 mins; April 28, 2023
'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
29 mins; April 26, 2023
What is Ireland going to do with all its money? Do a Norway or a UK? Oil prices reverse. AI accelerates.
38 mins; April 22, 2023
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
31 mins; April 19, 2023
Who has the Special Relationship, UK or Ireland? Macron's foreign policy fail. Are businesses using inflation as an excuse to hike profits?
38 mins; April 15, 2023
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
33 mins; April 12, 2023
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?
35 mins; April 09, 2023
Is the tax system fair? How much is enough?
32 mins; April 07, 2023
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.
31 mins; April 04, 2023
House prices crack? Banking crisis over? AI: history in the making or a big meh?
36 mins; March 30, 2023
Double whammy for the world economy? Interest rates to fall very soon? Have the limits to democracy been reached?
37 mins; March 28, 2023
Financial crisis 2.0: here we go again. Boris Johnson's Pound Shop Watergate is the end of the psychodrama
35 mins; March 24, 2023
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.
39 mins; March 19, 2023
Quantitative destruction: Has the ECB made another gigantic error? Hope and fear: we hope the banking crisis is over, we fear that is not.
35 mins; March 18, 2023
The Sporting Edition! Some Cheltenham, a little bit of Cricket and a lot of Rugby
29 mins; March 17, 2023
Three failed US banks, one global financial problem. US bank regulation has failed, reminding us that banks are still not fit for purpose?
42 mins; March 14, 2023
Gary Lineker and the great BBC fail. A big bank fails in the US: canary or nothingburger?
35 mins; March 12, 2023
Has Brexit Fever finally been broken? All things Windsor Agreement, all things Brexit - with Professor Chris Grey.
39 mins; March 11, 2023
Housing evictions: politically toxic, emotionally troubling, personal tragedy. But necessary? The 'Godot' economy. Banks as bandits. Again.
35 mins; March 08, 2023
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?
32 mins; March 04, 2023
Windsor Framework or Windsor Knot? It looks like a big deal. But the DUP still complain.
35 mins; February 28, 2023
China's message to Russia: no nukes and don't lose. More bad inflation news. Will central banks break the global property market?
37 mins; February 25, 2023
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.
31 mins; February 22, 2023
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?
35 mins; February 18, 2023
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
38 mins; February 15, 2023
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
36 mins; February 12, 2023
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.
32 mins; February 10, 2023
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.
38 mins; February 08, 2023
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.
39 mins; January 31, 2023
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.
37 mins; January 27, 2023
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.
33 mins; January 24, 2023
Donohoe's expenses row: materiality, proportionality & hypocrisy. Is Sinn Fein really an all-Ireland party? Tech & Banks in trouble?
44 mins; January 22, 2023
Latest economic data. The big housing questions: does the government understand the true nature of the housing crisis? Does Sinn Fein?
32 mins; January 20, 2023
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.
38 mins; January 14, 2023
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.
33 mins; January 10, 2023
Some good news on inflation, better news on gas prices, same old news on Irish tax revenues and the UK's very deep hole
38 mins; January 05, 2023
Looking back and looking forward. Where will forecasters be wrong for 2023? Just how bad has Brexit been for the UK? Mind your language!
41 mins; December 23, 2022
Japan springs a major surprise for global markets. EU trying to cap energy prices. Broken Britain part 42.
38 mins; December 21, 2022
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!
31 mins; December 20, 2022
Central bankers spook markets. Will they overdo it and cause a crisis? Global housing crash? The NHS in 'systemic failure'.
36 mins; December 17, 2022
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.
37 mins; December 14, 2022
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.
37 mins; December 09, 2022
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.
36 mins; December 06, 2022
A conversation with Noah Smith. Polymath, renaissance man: neither description does justice to this extraordinary writer. Intelligence, wit and wisdom in abundance. And optimism.
42 mins; December 03, 2022
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.
40 mins; December 02, 2022
Centuries of the patriarchy. Listening to our listeners. What's going on in China? Latest news on the economy
31 mins; November 29, 2022
'Failed State' narrative gets another boost from record employment numbers. The strange behaviour of MEPs and oil prices. A solution for inequality
37 mins; November 26, 2022
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.
33 mins; November 24, 2022
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.
43 mins; November 22, 2022
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?
36 mins; November 19, 2022
Ireland: best placed economy in the world to withstand the coming recession? UK: how to get really angry about political lying and BS economics.
34 mins; November 16, 2022
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?
33 mins; November 12, 2022
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?
39 mins; November 09, 2022
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?
37 mins; November 05, 2022
What do Liz Truss and Sinn Fein have in common? Fantasy politics continue in the UK but does economic policy now make sense?
39 mins; November 01, 2022
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.
40 mins; October 29, 2022
Sunak: destined for failure. Is Xi Jing-Ping doing a Liz Truss? Drone wars. Falling wholesale energy prices.
41 mins; October 25, 2022
How did it come to this? Is the UK now a banana republic? Can anything be salvaged from the wreckage.
21 mins; October 19, 2022
Liz Truss is toast. The ramifications for all of us are becoming clear: the global financial system is creaking badly.
38 mins; October 15, 2022
What is going on in the UK? Will Liz Truss be gone by Christmas? Is this the start of another financial crisis?
34 mins; October 12, 2022
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?
36 mins; October 08, 2022
Ireland is drowning in cash. The UK isn't. The Conservative party is ungovernable - maybe all this is connected..
33 mins; October 05, 2022
A tale of two islands. One well run, the other not so much.
38 mins; September 29, 2022
Remember the PIGS? Now they are the UPIGS. The UK becomes a submerging market. The political centre is collapsing everywhere.
34 mins; September 26, 2022
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.
36 mins; September 20, 2022
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.
37 mins; September 16, 2022
The US 'Civil War' & the kip that is San Fransicko. Macho central bankers? Dystopian Ireland: edition 42.
46 mins; September 10, 2022
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.
16 mins; August 28, 2022
Is Ireland really so unfair? Some facts that will change no populist minds. Danger ahead from PM Truss. Time to worry about China?
40 mins; August 19, 2022
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.
39 mins; August 13, 2022
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?
42 mins; August 06, 2022
Recession on both sides of the Atlantic - so stock markets go up. "Cakeism goes full gateau" in UK politics
36 mins; July 29, 2022
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.
37 mins; July 22, 2022
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.
37 mins; July 16, 2022
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.
39 mins; July 09, 2022
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.
31 mins; July 01, 2022
Everyone is forecasting recession. Be careful what you wish for. UK politics make great entertainment for the outside observer but try living there.
30 mins; June 25, 2022
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.
37 mins; June 17, 2022
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'.
35 mins; June 10, 2022
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.
39 mins; June 03, 2022
Ireland booms, UK grinds to a halt. US housing market joins Canada's and starts to slow - signs of things to come?
33 mins; May 27, 2022
Rents & the housing crisis. Stock markets in a different kind of crisis: strong signal that global recession is now the big worry for investors.
38 mins; May 20, 2022
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.
38 mins; May 14, 2022
They haven't gone away you know: water charges. Ireland's dystopia: incomes up, poverty down, inequality down. Truths that can never be told.
36 mins; May 11, 2022
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.
38 mins; May 07, 2022
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?
39 mins; May 03, 2022
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.
39 mins; April 26, 2022
'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.
38 mins; April 23, 2022
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?
34 mins; April 20, 2022
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