Maybe Irish corporation taxes are destined never to collapse? Famous last words? The Department of Yes and No
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A big week for economic data Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An American Oligarchy takes shape. Russia leads, Trump follows.
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OECD economic forecasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UK & Irish tax & govt. spending: a real drag. An explanation of the the USA - Russia bromance
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vance & co hate Europe because...... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Could anybody get elected in Ireland on a platform of fiscal restraint? Reeves last budget?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tale of two budgets. Or not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ukraine is sold out by America. The weird connections between Hobbits, right-wing nutjobs and Moscow.
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All the latest data Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nationalism: where does it come from? The glue that binds us or the poison that kills us?
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Professor Shane O'Mara Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Ireland gets a new Finance Minister - possibly not the best one available. Trump opens some files.
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zero or lots: the only two numerical concepts allowed to enter the immigration discourse Hosted on A...
Another Liz Truss moment for the UK? Clown car government in full view
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Irish inflation and the 'New' Housing plan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Trump's superpower: is inflation about to play the role of Kryptonite?
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Time to crowdfund the BBC? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Musk's trillion $ wages. AI: boundless possibilities or extinction level event?
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump Towers everywhere Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Does money drive us mad? Discuss. The madness of UK economic policy.
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
all the latest data Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Do tech billionaires have anything to say about how to run the country? They do, but are they worth listening to?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Irish economy shrinks....but is up double digits. Keir Starmer: MIA. All the latest data.
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AIAIAIAIAIA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economic growth: it's more mysterious, more fragile and more unusual than you can possibly imagine
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some reflections in the wake of the recent Nobel Prize for economics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
AI is everywhere apart from the data. Trump crowns himself and dumps on Americans.
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stock markets go up, again Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will boredom rather than Trump scupper Ireland's success? Latest data. House prices again.
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Too few taxpayers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
China is winning. The next industrial revolution will be just like first: based on cheap energy.
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The IMF says the global economy is in surprisingly reasonable shape Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Why the next bust is going to be particularly nasty. What would a business-friendly budget look like?
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The trend is your friend. Until it bends Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Budget 2026. And a bit on current market madness
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A strategic budget? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
France is broken. Britain is broken. Ireland is not. So stop trying to fix it
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI does not understand. Humans do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The evils of social media & the internet's 'enshittification'. The great AI Bubble: when will it burst?
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU needs to shrink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dishonest tax policy on both sides of the Irish sea. Green is good economics.
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radical suggestions and enviable certainty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Digital ID: coming soon to a country near you. Immigration & the economy.
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farage or Burnham for next UK PM? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economic resilience - don't take it for granted. Just ask Argentina
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Latest update from the OECD. And walking for good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Budgets loom in Ireland & the UK. The fiscal contrast grows ever more stark.
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump trashes the Constitution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The UK love bombs Trump. Markets go all in on AI
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim's walk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Don't mention the war. Is it possible to be optimistic? Sincere and performative beliefs
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some automation would be a very good thing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Have the limits of democracy been reached? France suggests yes. But all the alternatives are still much worse.
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
America opts for ill health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is Trump rewriting the rules of economics? Should Taiwan give up now?
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Needed: Moral clarity and policy effectiveness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Raising a flag to mark the demise of Western civilisation. Buying gold and selling...everything?
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a little bit of racism in all of us? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
The UK Chancellor damages the economy, the Prime Minister-in-waiting sullies the country
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An Irish presidential hopeful that Jim can support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Ireland is one of the richest, most equal societies on earth. Go figure.
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did wind and solar become a matter of anti-wokism? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
Peace in our time? Probably not. 'MAGA Marxism' - count the ironies, follow the money
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Read before commenting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ireland is distorting EU economic data. The tyranny of the minority. Tariffs & inflation
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A theory of everything that is going wrong Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Can The EU survive MAGA? The ultimate test looms.
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A worthwhile Canadian initiative: stand up to Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Unemployment rises for the first time in a while. Tax receipts still booming.
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT5 is here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Don't hand the country's infrastructure to Musk. Or Bezos. Or any tech bro
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump plays with bond market fire Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is data on the US now fundamentally corrupted?
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All exports to the US to go through the six counties? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Trump bends reality - but for how long?
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU's abject humiliation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Leprechaun economics spreads. Flooding the zone in the US & UK - will Ireland be next?
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farage looks like a shoe-in for Prime Minister. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
A cunning plan. It might just work !
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Long thought to be extinct - evidence of strategic thinking spotted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Trump breaks with Murdoch. And the US economy keeps humming along
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The tariff threat hasn't gone away Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will the OTB kill the Irish Economy? Real house prices: context if not consolation
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump to fire Powell? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyone is left behind in the UK. Vance tries to put lipstick on a pig
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All the latest data Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
At last! the solution to the housing crisis: build match boxes!
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why didn't we think of this before? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Should Ireland care about the UK's slide into despair?
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not much Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10% tariffs + 15% exchange rate hit = economic carnage?.
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UK's Labour goes from bad to worse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Irish politics today: paralysed by indecision. But is that what we want?
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We begin with a slightly idiosyncratic - and highly stylised - discussion of how Ireland went from a...
War: A podcast special
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody knows anything Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are house prices really that high? Stagflation, interest rates and Switzerland
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Normalisation of the grotesque continues apace Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Is there a good rationale for bombing Iran? All the latest data. More totalitarian steps in the US
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The truth is out there Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
War and the world economy. The UK's sordid service sector. Is 'progressive' pejorative?
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Manufacturing and other fetishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
America's big birthday approaches. But is that Republic going the way of the Romans?
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rent controls don't work. They usually make things worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
The economy is going gangbusters. Or not. Dublin & London subsidise everybody else. Why?
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Empathy will destroy Western civilisation" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Ireland & the UK: 2 countries, 1 rich, 1 not so much. 3 crises & neither doing anything about them
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transatlantic betrayal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Trump family enriches itself. In plain sight
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No outrage, not even surprise Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump creates a new unregulated banking system. What could possibly go wrong?
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard and Apple complete the trifecta of destruction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
No big tariff consequences in the data - yet. Ireland still going gangbusters?
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How many words for unceratinty are there? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
MAGA split. Fiscal crisis brewing in the US? Brexit boredom in the UK
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration redux. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Money for nothing. 'More': is that really what gives us meaning?
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Joan Mulvihill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Ireland is no longer Irish". Discuss
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What, exactly, is wrong with immigration? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
Trump chickens out. Starmer veers right and loses middle England.
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Time to welcome foreigners to our universities Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Performative trade deals. The UK pays protection money to the Mob.
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gates skewers Musk. And much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Meme coins and property deals provide no clues about Trump's values
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Exchequer returns and the sound of weeping from Downing Street Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Financial markets think it's (nearly) all over. Are they right?
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Trump really constrained? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The US is the richest and most succesful country ever. Why do so many think it is so awful?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ethics and values in a godless universe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
House building fails to take off. China has the upper hand over Trump. Tesla sales disappoint.
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Germany's most protracted slump since WW2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
Trump starts to show up in the global economic data. The IMF adds to the gloom
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA wants the papacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will house prices be crushed by the Trump recession? Who wants to go back down the mines?
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Europe now a better place to live than America? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
The business of sport - in conversation with rising motor racing star Alex Denning
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's nearly all about money. But talent helps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
The Unites States unites the world
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Against it Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
China gets slammed. China retaliates. Rinse and repeat.
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Was China the real target all along? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is this a Liz Truss moment for the world? Is smuggling into the US the next big thing?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The foundations of the world economy are cracking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
Is a global recession imminent?
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Probably Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is it time to call the US a Dictatorship? If it walks like a duck....
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And just a little bit about the breakdown of the world economy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Keir Starmer falls into Donald Trump's trap. Liberation day looms.
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Upping the tariff war ante Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The new cold war: The US v. everyone else
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland accelerates towards a cliff edge Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
The rapidly changing Irish personal finance landscape. Can you manage your own bin charges?
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim talks to Mark Hedderman, President of the LIA, about the new and evolving world of Irish persona...
Transitory inflation is back. Is the era of full employment drawing to a close?
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dark MAGA dismantles America Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The coming constitutional crises - in more than one country
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greed is not good Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Happy St Patrick's Day! Ireland's place in the world - the threats and opportunities
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some advice: don't be like the UK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump is unbound and unhinged. At least the stock market has worked it out.
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taking the knee is all very well but..... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
MAGA is all in. Even a stock market crash is not going to change hearts or minds
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The most important moment for Europe since the Berlin Wall came down Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
In conversation with Dan Davies, author of "The Unaccountability Machine"
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Brad de Long's review of the book:Understanding how to make our systems more accountable and mo...
The West is over. Get over it.
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU must transform itself or die Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Can the EU survive the collapse of the post-WW2 world order?
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not without big changes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How to cope with a pro-Russian cult that is trying to destroy any idea of "The West"
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hide Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The US gives Europe the finger
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump aligns with Moscow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will the West unite against its new common enemy? (That's America, in case you hadn't guessed)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada should join the EU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Finding nobility in the health service. Something notably absent in the White House
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why cause chaos? 'Because I can'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Should the first act of Ireland's new government be an emergency budget?
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hoping for the best and not preparing for the worst Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Wanted: politicians who fill in potholes. Delivery, delivery, delivery
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where is Ireland's charismatic right-wing rabble rouser? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
Are you warming to Donald Trump?
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day 1 of the new era Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How to stop Farage from being the next UK Prime Minister
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could 2025 be the year of peak populism? The year of 'the great awakening' of normal people?The MAGA...
The dark side of technology - from tech evangelist Joan Mulvihill
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Akin to launching aeroplanes without safety or regulatory checks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
The age of stupid? Or will financial markets impose sanity?
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Economists have sung the praises of free trade for centuries. But nobody that matters believes any l...
Is the Musk-Trump administration trying to kill the idea of the West? Bond markets crash and German mysteries
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are all tech-titans evil? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Can the EU survive Trump?
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And all the latest data! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Looking forward, looking backward. It's that time of year again.
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much is enough? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State? Or just disaster porn?
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Irish House prices up again, Fed cuts, markets tank, UK woes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...