A booming economy & struggling society ?Ireland’s economy explained with Conor McCabe
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Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media
50 min
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Welcome to Reboot Republic, the podcast that goes behind the headlines and looks at the big issues in this republic of inequality. We are the podcast of solutions and the podcast of hope. I'm your host, Rory Hearn, and delighted to be joined on the podcast today by Dr. Conor McCabe, who is a researcher, author, long-time critical analyst, one of Ireland's finest intellectuals, and...
That's a very low bar, you know, to be fair, you know, so.
And known to be wonderfully upbeat and good humored all the time. Conor, it's wonderful to have you on the podcast. It sounds like you're suffering like half the country is at the moment.
Pardon me.
Yes, I am. Yeah, yeah. But like, it's grand. It's grand. Yeah, good. You'll suffer through it. Ah, yeah. Conor, listen, I'm delighted to have you on. I've been meaning to have you on for a good while. And just, we want to have a wider kind of discussion on the, I suppose, economy, housing, inequality, and where is the left going politically. And maybe just to start, kind of, your take on, kind of, a big picture perspective of The Irish economy, because we're, you know, record growth for countless years now, you know, record wealth, GDP figures that, you know, so many countries are so jealous of. Despite all the kind of economic turbulence that has been internationally, the Irish economy has been remarkably actually resilient internationally.
And how much of it, you know, we've been talking for years, is built on the house of sand in terms of corporate tax receipts. And we know it's such a big part of the economy, but yet it continues. Pharma continues. How much is our tax haven status part of this? The AI bubble that they're all talking about. You know, where is the economy at from a kind of macroeconomic critical analysis perspective?
Yeah, I mean, there's around 3.9 million people working in the South at the moment. They're not all working in AI and kind of FDI, you know. I mean, like, there's a bit of a problem when looking at the actually existing dynamics of the Irish state, because...
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