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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?
38 mins; April 15, 2022
Global recession on the way? Via a wage-price spiral? Criminals running the UK government? Covid corner: lab leak or not?
39 mins; April 12, 2022
The Other Hand returns! Ukraine, inflation and why we should shut off Russian gas now.
37 mins; April 08, 2022
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.
36 mins; March 17, 2022
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?
33 mins; March 11, 2022
Ukraine: it's existential for both their way of life and ours.
34 mins; March 02, 2022
Ukraine: are financial markets getting it wrong?
36 mins; February 25, 2022
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?
34 mins; February 22, 2022
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?
37 mins; February 18, 2022
Brexit is dramatically altering Irish trade. Demography might be destiny but don't try forecasting it. Housing & voting for the Shinners.
37 mins; February 16, 2022
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?
39 mins; February 11, 2022
The Father Ted approach to policy. MMT - Magic Money Tree? Populism: playing to tribal & atavistic instincts - be very careful.
31 mins; February 08, 2022
Britain's meltdown. Interest hikes for everyone. Facebook, Apple and Amazon: winner takes even more. Is Facebook for oldies only? Tax luck, not genius.
36 mins; February 04, 2022
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?
33 mins; February 02, 2022
We are nowhere near building enough houses - blame the NIMBYS. Pension or Party? Jim does damp January
35 mins; January 29, 2022
IMF admits a big forecast error - stagflation beckons? Britain is no longer a serious country - beware electing populist politicians bearing simple solutions.
37 mins; January 25, 2022
Stock markets to fall 50%? Bitcoin signals risk ahead. Disappearing cash. Inflation: cost-of-living crisis looms. Who will replace Boris Johnson?
39 mins; January 21, 2022
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.
33 mins; January 18, 2022
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.
38 mins; January 11, 2022
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?
40 mins; January 11, 2022
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.
38 mins; January 05, 2022
A Covid rant. Ireland is doing very well on a number of key metrics. Foreign investors like a lot about the country
40 mins; December 22, 2021
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.
40 mins; December 18, 2021
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.
33 mins; December 15, 2021
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.
35 mins; December 11, 2021
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.
39 mins; December 02, 2021
Brexit and the end of the UK land-bridge? COVID: Omicron policy response becomes Moronic. What drives anti-vaxxers?
37 mins; November 30, 2021
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.
38 mins; November 25, 2021
Housing & vultures. Covid restrictions & revolts. Marijuana - there's an app for that.
42 mins; November 22, 2021
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?
33 mins; November 16, 2021
Forecasts for the economy double. Inflation also up a lot. Does debt matter? Shinners in government - mind your pension.
35 mins; November 13, 2021
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?
37 mins; November 10, 2021
Bank of England stumbles and sterling falls. The tax boom is getting boomier.
29 mins; November 06, 2021
Global inflation and supply chain problems are getting worse. Are higher interest rates the answer? Does COP26 need a touch of CBT?
37 mins; November 03, 2021
Mafia-style elites govern us all. But are they making a mistake?
39 mins; October 30, 2021
Economists still don't know what causes inflation? Is it, today, a nice problem to have? Can Johnson keep his electoral coalition intact?
39 mins; October 28, 2021
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.
36 mins; October 21, 2021
Back to the future? That 70s show...again? Reflections on how the age of abundance may be coming to an end.
35 mins; October 18, 2021
A budget that butters many small parsnips but buys no votes.
32 mins; October 13, 2021
The political economy of the budget: 'One of the most prosperous countries on earth' or 'a dystopian hell-hole'? The answer matters. A lot.
38 mins; October 09, 2021
Booming tax revenues and difficult political choices. The madness of King Boris: He's invented anti-business Neanderthal Thatcherism.
37 mins; October 06, 2021
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.
36 mins; October 02, 2021
Is an energy crisis about to derail the world economy? Brexit as it was foretold. Time to get real - and honest - about the environment
38 mins; September 29, 2021
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.
49 mins; September 24, 2021
China crisis? Cost of living crisis? It's a gas. Ireland in 2021 viewed from the 1980s: nobody would believe it.
38 mins; September 23, 2021
Time to abolish the budget? Fat chance. Take fiscal policy away from politicians! Why is the system so unreformable?
33 mins; September 15, 2021
Remembering 9/11
37 mins; September 11, 2021
'The rise of the illiberal left'. The uselessness of economic forecasts. Your winter heating bills are going up - a lot.
37 mins; September 08, 2021
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?
35 mins; September 03, 2021
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.
37 mins; August 30, 2021
Stockmarket jitters: the start of the big one? Chinese attacks on corporate titans. Questioning 'conspicuous environmentalism'.
36 mins; August 21, 2021
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?
41 mins; August 16, 2021
Berliners are revolting (over rents). Latest economic news. The politicisation of the environment. Where are Ireland's looney toons?
35 mins; August 12, 2021
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?
31 mins; July 31, 2021
Resuming International travel. What's China up to? Latest IMF views on the world economy. Young people and their pitchforks.
39 mins; July 27, 2021
Is it time to take a 30 year fixed mortgage? Latest update on the economy. Covid corner: 1200 scientists say the UK is wrong.
35 mins; July 17, 2021
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'.
36 mins; July 13, 2021
Johnson's biggest gamble yet. Eurozone economy finally takes off - but for how long? Why do some journalists make it so personal?
35 mins; July 06, 2021
The UK government and NPHET couldn't have more different views of the world. Only one of them can be right.
32 mins; July 02, 2021
Scientists say jump, government asks: how high? Should policy makers not consider the bigger picture? Will young people become revolting?
35 mins; June 29, 2021
Brexit Unfolded: in conversation with author Professor Chris Grey on the publication of his much awaited book.
40 mins; June 23, 2021
End of the reflation trade? The mysterious NPHET opposition to antigen testing. Cracks in Boris Johnson's wall.
35 mins; June 19, 2021
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.
36 mins; June 15, 2021
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
35 mins; June 09, 2021
Booming economies but where have all the workers gone? UK heading for big Covid trouble? Why do economists love property taxes?
37 mins; June 04, 2021
Archbishop McQuaid's ghost stalks our streets. Beware the inner traffic warden. Where did the virus really come from? OECD ups its forecasts.
34 mins; June 01, 2021
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?
32 mins; May 28, 2021
The future of house prices. The ketchup economy. The price of another pint.
34 mins; May 24, 2021
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.
33 mins; May 19, 2021
House prices: populist posturing will make the problem worse. Global and Irish Inflation: already worse than feared? Covid corner: delays to vaccines costs lives.
34 mins; May 14, 2021
UK Politics; US Jobs Disappointment; Shortages, Chips & Sex Toys
35 mins; May 10, 2021
Are markets mad? Bits of the economy are booming. Bidenomics is about much more than economics. Was zero covid ever a possibility?
35 mins; May 05, 2021
Europe says Covid scarring is forever: America disagrees. US economy booms, Europe is in recession. Tech profits: US has them, Europe does not.
38 mins; April 30, 2021
Counting the cost of Covid - properly. What could have been done better? And proper post-Covid economic policy
37 mins; April 27, 2021
Taxes going up in the US and Ireland; EU economy takes off; Ponies stuck in Brexit limbo
34 mins; April 24, 2021
SMEs face many headwinds but represent future of the economy. A conversation with Neil McDonnell, CEO of ISME
38 mins; April 21, 2021
Suppression of competition and debate.
38 mins; April 20, 2021
Ignore the headlines & hype about taxation of Apple, Google, Amazon & the rest: here are the surprising facts
44 mins; April 16, 2021
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?
38 mins; April 14, 2021
Biden is coming for your corporation taxes; more on experts who lie and experts who just get it wrong
36 mins; April 09, 2021
Spinning the Covid Data on Outdoor Risks; Review of Q1 Economies & Markets; New IMF Forecasts for the World Economy
36 mins; April 06, 2021
A hedge fund in trouble. Again. Trouble ahead for all of us? And a radical suggestion: move the capital from Dublin to Belfast.
35 mins; March 30, 2021
A minor Covid rant, the surprising Suez Canal, disagreeing (a bit) with Martin Sandbu, legalising recreational drugs in NY State.
35 mins; March 26, 2021
Once more with feeling: asking the tough Covid questions
38 mins; March 23, 2021
A lockdown cry of pain, perhaps even protest; Varadkar tries his hand at economics
35 mins; March 19, 2021
Is the EU facing another existential crisis? Vaccine and economic incompetence.
34 mins; March 17, 2021
Biden's boom; Is the 12 year bull market in equities over?; Davy implosion
35 mins; March 13, 2021
Global economy on fire: Biden's New New Deal. What does it mean for the world?
34 mins; March 09, 2021
Connecting Irish Unemployment, Exchequer Returns, Rishi Sunak & GNI*
36 mins; March 04, 2021
Banks, banking and branch closures
38 mins; March 02, 2021
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37 mins; February 28, 2021
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