The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Next Global Recession?
44 mins; April 01, 2026
Did Big Tech Ruin the Internet? with Cory Doctorow
39 mins; March 30, 2026
Is the West Losing Africa to China?
44 mins; March 25, 2026
Why Some Countries Create Jobs and Others Export People
40 mins; March 23, 2026
Shedonomics: Can Europe Survive China’s Manufacturing Machine?
36 mins; March 18, 2026
St Patrick's Day Special: Who Exactly Are The Irish Americans?
51 mins; March 16, 2026
The Economics of War
28 mins; March 11, 2026
America's Road to Tehran - Part 2
47 mins; March 09, 2026
How the West Lost Iran: Oil, Coups, and the Road to Revolution - Part 1
46 mins; March 04, 2026
Can Democracy Survive an AI Economy?
41 mins; March 02, 2026
Can Europe’s “Hidden Continent” Finally Break Free?
39 mins; February 25, 2026
Can You Prosper Without Building Proper Cities?
38 mins; February 23, 2026
Revenge of the Nerds
36 mins; February 18, 2026
What Happens to an Economy When Credit Stops Flowing?
40 mins; February 16, 2026
Can the New Fed Boss Shrink QE Without Crashing Everything?
43 mins; February 11, 2026
Why Did Bitcoin Crash Again? The Scam That’s Been Around Since Dante
40 mins; February 09, 2026
Swipe Left on Society: Singledom, Sexless Men, and the New Politics of Loneliness with Aideen McQueen
49 mins; February 04, 2026
Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference with Rutger Bregman
48 mins; February 02, 2026
Ireland’s American Problem: The Jockey, the Horses, and the End of the Easy Money Era
38 mins; January 28, 2026
The Great Global Rebalancing: How Trump's America is Losing its Grip on the World's Capital with Sony Kapoor
45 mins; January 26, 2026
The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy!
49 mins; January 21, 2026
Trump vs. The Fed: Sabotage, Showdown, or Economic Revolution?
39 mins; January 19, 2026
The Great Uncoupling & Fiscal Crisis: America, Europe & the Bond Market Reckoning
53 mins; January 14, 2026
The Bipolar Economy: Trump, Oil & the End of Balance with Carole Nakhle
48 mins; January 12, 2026
Venezuela Falls, Cuba Trembles with Marla Dukharan
45 mins; January 07, 2026
After Maduro: Who Really Runs Venezuela Now? with Juan Tokatlian
43 mins; January 06, 2026
What If 2026 Is the Year America Leaves Us Behind?
41 mins; December 31, 2025
What's Really Going on In Venezuela? Oil, Empire & the Next Proxy War
46 mins; December 29, 2025
2025: China’s Year
42 mins; December 22, 2025
Was Genghis Khan the World’s First Globalist?
37 mins; December 17, 2025
Can Wind Power Make Us Rich Again?
42 mins; December 15, 2025
Europe Under Threat: Can the Centre Hold?
46 mins; December 10, 2025
The Great Affordability Lie?
35 mins; December 08, 2025
Petty Lines in the Sand
36 mins; December 03, 2025
China Explained with Dan Wang
50 mins; December 01, 2025
Is Central Asia the Next Front Line of Global Power? with Peter Frankopan
38 mins; November 26, 2025
Why Can’t the West Build Anymore?
39 mins; November 24, 2025
Is $4,000 Gold the First Crack in the Fiat Era?
31 mins; November 19, 2025
Hollywood, Soft Power & Ireland’s Anti-American Left?
47 mins; November 17, 2025
Vibecession, AI Mania & The New Casino Economy with Kyla Scanlon
37 mins; November 12, 2025
The Tech Crash, The Demographic Time Bomb, and Ireland’s Future 40
39 mins; November 10, 2025
The Pope’s Children at 20: How Ireland Grew Up
38 mins; November 05, 2025
Australia, Argentina & Ireland: A Tale of Three Economies
41 mins; November 03, 2025
The Life Raft for Billionaires: Why Tech Titans Are Buying New Zealand
33 mins; October 29, 2025
The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin
42 mins; October 27, 2025
The Lost Sailors: From Aboriginals to Schumpeter
38 mins; October 22, 2025
The Land of Opportunity Down Under: Australia
41 mins; October 20, 2025
Saudi the Kingmaker: Gaza, Trump & a New Middle East with Andrew Maxwell
54 mins; October 15, 2025
The Behavioural Budget: How Tax Shapes Us
36 mins; October 13, 2025
The Art of Creation with The Edge - Part Two
42 mins; October 08, 2025
The Art of Creation with The Edge
44 mins; October 06, 2025
What is Radical Politics?
46 mins; October 01, 2025
Culture Wars in the West, Alliances in the East
36 mins; September 29, 2025
Who Owns the Flag? From the American Revolution to Charlie Kirk
38 mins; September 24, 2025
The Economics of Golf
48 mins; September 22, 2025
From Cod to Culture: What Inishmore Teaches Us About the Experience Economy
36 mins; September 17, 2025
Could the GAA Solve Ireland’s Housing Crisis?
34 mins; September 15, 2025
Deepfakes, Big Tech, and the Coming AI Crash?
37 mins; September 10, 2025
France on the Brink: Debt, Drama, and a Possible Sixth Republic
39 mins; September 08, 2025
Economics in a Tent: Live at Electric Picnic 2025
46 mins; September 03, 2025
Is America The Richest Third World Country?
40 mins; September 01, 2025
Germany, 10 Years After “Wir Schaffen Das”, What Really Happened? with Katja Hoyer
36 mins; August 27, 2025
The Nationalisation of the New Home Market
33 mins; August 25, 2025
Ukraine at the Crossroads: From Donetsk to the Garrison State
41 mins; August 21, 2025
Ireland is a Hostage to Fortune
38 mins; August 19, 2025
America’s Dutch Disease: How Debt Became the World’s Hottest Export
40 mins; August 13, 2025
From The Godfather to the Blockchain: How Easy Money Seduced Wall Street (and the White House)
26 mins; August 11, 2025
Japan: Lost in Translation Part Two
41 mins; August 06, 2025
Japan: From Feudal Isolation to Economic Superpower
43 mins; August 04, 2025
Generation Rent: How Housing Costs Are Exporting Ireland's Future
33 mins; July 30, 2025
Did Europe Just Surrender to Trump?
32 mins; July 28, 2025
When the West Woke Up: How Yugoslavia Fell Apart
46 mins; July 23, 2025
Why Ireland Must Rethink Its Economic Future; Fast
38 mins; July 21, 2025
The Ghosts of Yugoslavia: Borders, Bankers & Balkan Ghosts
41 mins; July 16, 2025
Can We Cope With This Level of Immigration?
32 mins; July 14, 2025
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Economics of Immortality, Tech Bros & Tír na nÓg
30 mins; July 09, 2025
Trieste and the City of the Future
37 mins; July 07, 2025
Who Killed the Living City?
39 mins; July 02, 2025
Content, Culture & the Bottom Line: How Finance is Killing the Avant-Garde
31 mins; June 30, 2025
Has the Balance of Global Power Just Shifted to Israel?
32 mins; June 25, 2025
The Dollar, the Ape & the End of an Empire
40 mins; June 23, 2025
Memoirs of an Arab Jew
49 mins; June 18, 2025
The Islamic Enlightenment
47 mins; June 16, 2025
The Hanseatic League: Europe’s First Free Trade Zone
36 mins; June 11, 2025
Will America’s Debt Crash the Global Economy?
36 mins; June 09, 2025
From Bolsheviks to Bolt: The Tallinnovation Nation
35 mins; June 04, 2025
Creativity in the Cul-de-Sac: Why the Suburbs Won
40 mins; June 02, 2025
Spain’s Miracle Economy: What They Got Right (That We Didn’t) with Joe Haslam
43 mins; May 28, 2025
The Bilbao Blueprint
31 mins; May 26, 2025
The Moody Blues: No More Finance Bros in LA
32 mins; May 21, 2025
The Battle for Africa with Pumi Mashigo
42 mins; May 19, 2025
Trump’s New Enemies: Billionaires, Big Pharma & Bibi?
31 mins; May 14, 2025
A Letter from Africa with Simon Kuper
51 mins; May 12, 2025
Inflation for Losers with Mark Blyth
41 mins; May 07, 2025
How Canada Became the Anti-Trump Blueprint
42 mins; May 05, 2025
Slowing Down in an Age of Acceleration with Elif Shafak
34 mins; April 30, 2025
The Art of Taxation: How a Crisis Could Save Your City
34 mins; April 28, 2025
Popeonomics?
45 mins; April 23, 2025
The New Great Game?
37 mins; April 21, 2025
Paris, Power & Picking Sides: Europe’s Awakening in a MAGA World
35 mins; April 16, 2025