Austin Hughes
speaker
415 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Austin Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, the drop in corporation tax at the same time when globalization was really taking off internationally.
So we were very fortunate that
You know, maybe the current crop of 20 to 30-year-olds are right to say that was the golden time.
It's not going to be as good now.
But at the same time, maybe, you know, we'll have more entrepreneurs, more exciting AI companies from Ireland over the next 20 years.
What is very certain is people are going to inherit a lot more wealth.
Yes, in terms of the 10-year view, because certainly 10 years ago, you know, there were economists saying we shouldn't build any more houses because the economy has cratered and will remain cratered.
So I think there's a little more positivity there.
And remember back in terms of the 1990s, we were building about 20,000, you know, loans, new loans were about 30,000.
There were 45,000 last year.
So there is progress there.
It's slow.
It's painful.
And, you know, we do need to make sure that the fruits of that are shared.
I'd have a different view to a lot of economists about the need to ensure that the social contract is honored and we don't see a fracture of society.
Yeah.
Good morning, Susan.
Often when we talk about the economy, we speak of
the consumer or the economy, as though conditions were entirely the same right across every business and every household.
And that's something you learn in basic economics, this idea of a representative agent.
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