David McWilliams
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15,996 appearances
46 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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We need to rebalance the mix in Ireland.
towards wages, away from profit.
And one of the ways of doing that, ironically, is reducing immigration because working or poorer people always suffer economically in periods of high immigration.
And that's why, for example, it's no...
Great myth that the period where Americans did so well, you know that idea, the growth of the American middle classes in the 1950s and 1960s, after the Second World War, were also coincided with the lowest rates of immigration America had ever seen.
So the Americans stopped taking in migrants in the 30s and didn't open up their doors again until the 80s.
And lo and behold, what you found was a massive upswing in the prospects of working class Americans.
Like we know this happens all over.
This is economics 101.
This is how it works.
And so I think that, you know, it's interesting.
The Danish socialists have become...
very, very attracted to reducing immigration because they have said that their job is to protect the interests of the working Danish people, both immigrant and non-immigrant.
And as a result of that, politics in Denmark has changed dramatically.
And the fascinating thing about Denmark is there is no significant far-right movement.
It's the only country in Europe that doesn't have it.
Why?
Because the left wing decided we're going to look after our own.
And maybe they should do the same in Ireland.
On the podcast today, it's all financial markets, it's all the US underlying budget deficit, it's the rates of interest, it's macroeconomics, it's global finance, as you have never heard it, it's all coming up.
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