Stagflation with no sign of the stag. Economic growth resurges, at least in the US - perhaps to remarkable levels. Dollar strength no deterrent to weekend shopping trips to NYC.
25 Nov 2021
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Housing & vultures. Covid restrictions & revolts. Marijuana - there's an app for that.
22 Nov 2021
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Panto season starts early: Covid, unlike Cinderella, only comes out at midnight. Apparently. Out and about in Dublin. If the game is truly rigged which way to go: extreme right or left?
16 Nov 2021
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Forecasts for the economy double. Inflation also up a lot. Does debt matter? Shinners in government - mind your pension.
13 Nov 2021
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One year on from the first vaccine. Stock markets signalling all is now fine: rational markets or just another bubble? Why is there no ambition for Dublin?
10 Nov 2021
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Bank of England stumbles and sterling falls. The tax boom is getting boomier.
06 Nov 2021
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The bank of England all but promised an interest rate rise this week but then failed to deliver. Wha...
Global inflation and supply chain problems are getting worse. Are higher interest rates the answer? Does COP26 need a touch of CBT?
03 Nov 2021
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Interest rate rises around the world now seem to be just a mater of time. How fixed is your mortgage...
Mafia-style elites govern us all. But are they making a mistake?
30 Oct 2021
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For centuries, the ways in which many societies governed themselves were indistinguishable from mafi...
Economists still don't know what causes inflation? Is it, today, a nice problem to have? Can Johnson keep his electoral coalition intact?
28 Oct 2021
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Leading economist Duncan Weldon once again joins The Other Hand to discuss the issues of the day.In ...
Booming tax revenues on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sunak & Johnson in conflict or just setting up pre-election tax cuts? Strange economics of financing de-carbonisation.
21 Oct 2021
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Leading economist Duncan Weldon joins Chris in conversation about how tax revenues are giving financ...
Back to the future? That 70s show...again? Reflections on how the age of abundance may be coming to an end.
18 Oct 2021
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In Jim’s absence (he always needs a couple of weeks off after the budget), Chris speaks to leading...
A budget that butters many small parsnips but buys no votes.
13 Oct 2021
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The budget was the expected smorgasbord of measures. A budget that makes abundant sense to a centris...
The political economy of the budget: 'One of the most prosperous countries on earth' or 'a dystopian hell-hole'? The answer matters. A lot.
09 Oct 2021
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Budget 2022 arrives with amazing news about Ireland’s fiscal position. For once it is unambiguousl...
Booming tax revenues and difficult political choices. The madness of King Boris: He's invented anti-business Neanderthal Thatcherism.
06 Oct 2021
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Ireland’s tax take is extremely buoyant, at least for the first 9 months of the year. What to spen...
Global economy screeching to a halt? How bad will it get? The first official acknowledgement that Brexit might just have something to do with British chaos. Brexit did, after all, mean Brexit.
02 Oct 2021
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The world economy is slowing down. Asia, including China, is weakening. European indicators are flas...
Is an energy crisis about to derail the world economy? Brexit as it was foretold. Time to get real - and honest - about the environment
29 Sep 2021
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Rising oil and gas prices join the long list of things joining the inflation party. How are central ...
In conversation with journalist, author and broadcaster Duncan Weldon. '200 years of Muddling Through.' Why is the UK in its current state? Look at where it has come from.
24 Sep 2021
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We ignore history. Policymakers certainly do. But there is very little new under the sun. Duncan Wel...
China crisis? Cost of living crisis? It's a gas. Ireland in 2021 viewed from the 1980s: nobody would believe it.
23 Sep 2021
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Is China and it’s indebted property companies reliving the West’s Great Financial Crisis?Gas pri...
Time to abolish the budget? Fat chance. Take fiscal policy away from politicians! Why is the system so unreformable?
15 Sep 2021
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The annual budget circus has started. Love Island is more entertaining and only marginally less sign...
Remembering 9/11
11 Sep 2021
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Some personal reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.And some stuff on the budget and interest ...
'The rise of the illiberal left'. The uselessness of economic forecasts. Your winter heating bills are going up - a lot.
08 Sep 2021
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The Economist has a big piece this week on ‘the rise of the illiberal left’. That newspaper is a...
The economy rebounds. Housing plans: how flimsy are the foundations? A surprising linkage: inequality causes low interest rates and high house prices. Monetary policy dominance over?
03 Sep 2021
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Lots of economic data over past few days, all pointing to very robust growth as the economy reopens....
Housing: a deep crisis met only by shallow thinking. Restaurants are closing because of labour shortages. The UK is short 100,000 lorry drivers. Higher pay means we have to pay more.
30 Aug 2021
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So much shallow thinking is applied to so many of our problems. Not least housing. But also low pay ...
Stockmarket jitters: the start of the big one? Chinese attacks on corporate titans. Questioning 'conspicuous environmentalism'.
21 Aug 2021
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The Hong Kong stock market is off 20% from its high earlier this year. That’s the conventional def...
Anger and fact-free belief about house prices. Is this the age of anti-austerity? Brexit: still happening as predicted. Afghanistan: if the exit was inevitable surely the method wasn't?
16 Aug 2021
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Anger is not a strategy. You won’t get lower house prices or lower rents by shouting at the people...
Berliners are revolting (over rents). Latest economic news. The politicisation of the environment. Where are Ireland's looney toons?
12 Aug 2021
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Jim takes us through the latest economic newsWhy has the environment become so political? Surely it’...
Post-pandemic economies: what will they look like? More on house prices and interest rates: normality means higher rates. So things won't be normal? Australia quietly abandons zero covid?
31 Jul 2021
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What does economic normality look like?We suggest that nothing will be normal until interest rates r...
Resuming International travel. What's China up to? Latest IMF views on the world economy. Young people and their pitchforks.
27 Jul 2021
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Jim has been travelling but thinks he might need to keep it quiet.China has taken a sledge hammer to...
Is it time to take a 30 year fixed mortgage? Latest update on the economy. Covid corner: 1200 scientists say the UK is wrong.
17 Jul 2021
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Latest inflation news on both sides of the Atlantic has been grim. The debate goes on: is the surge ...
Hitting the beach after July 19th? Be prepared for a shock if you are renting a car. Supply chain problems are worsening - not just for autos. Johnson's gamble looks like he's going 'all in'.
13 Jul 2021
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Anyone heading off after July 19th should steel themselves for sticker shock, not least for car rent...
Johnson's biggest gamble yet. Eurozone economy finally takes off - but for how long? Why do some journalists make it so personal?
06 Jul 2021
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Boris Johnson has always been a gambler. His biggest yet is the decision to lift all Covid restricti...
The UK government and NPHET couldn't have more different views of the world. Only one of them can be right.
02 Jul 2021
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The UK government believes the time has come to live with Covid. NPHET does not.We look at the evide...
Scientists say jump, government asks: how high? Should policy makers not consider the bigger picture? Will young people become revolting?
29 Jun 2021
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Surely governments have a wider remit than do medics and scientists? What is the bigger picture?What...
Brexit Unfolded: in conversation with author Professor Chris Grey on the publication of his much awaited book.
23 Jun 2021
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On the 5th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, Chris Grey publishes Brexit Unfolded, his magisteri...
End of the reflation trade? The mysterious NPHET opposition to antigen testing. Cracks in Boris Johnson's wall.
19 Jun 2021
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Markets decided weeks ago that the inflation scare is temporary. Now they are doubling down with a b...
The delta variant is coming your way, but so is the populist plague. The G7 and the return of America: perhaps temporary but certainly welcome. A pointless trade deal with Australia.
15 Jun 2021
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Johnson once again fluffed his lines when he had to speak them live. He’s all bluster, zero belief...
G7 is not just about corporate taxes: the environment is even more important. EU and UK fall out over sausages. Out and about in London and Dublin
09 Jun 2021
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The G7 has a long and mixed history. It used to be about exchange rates. Today it is mostly taxes bu...
Booming economies but where have all the workers gone? UK heading for big Covid trouble? Why do economists love property taxes?
04 Jun 2021
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A raft of economic data this week suggests economies on both sides of the Atlantic have taken off li...
Archbishop McQuaid's ghost stalks our streets. Beware the inner traffic warden. Where did the virus really come from? OECD ups its forecasts.
01 Jun 2021
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Comments from civil servants about Dublin’s Street life raise all sorts of questions. Only some of...
Reopening the economy but playing fast and loose with the common travel area? Hair & beauty expertise in a surprising quarter. Stock up on breakfast stuff?
28 May 2021
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Ireland announces the reopening plan. But the Common Travel Area is still not common: Britain has ke...
The future of house prices. The ketchup economy. The price of another pint.
24 May 2021
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The future of housing and house prices. Can and should the public sector get much more involved? The...
Housing policy: gifting power to Sinn Fein? Is neo-liberalism dead? Brexit & trade: UK can't say all is well between GB and EU but not between GB & NI.
19 May 2021
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Reaction to our last podcast has been massive and it remains the non-covid issue for Irish politics....
House prices: populist posturing will make the problem worse. Global and Irish Inflation: already worse than feared? Covid corner: delays to vaccines costs lives.
14 May 2021
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A look at what drives house prices. Populists will grab the headlines - and maybe the votes - but th...
UK Politics; US Jobs Disappointment; Shortages, Chips & Sex Toys
10 May 2021
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England turns blue. The end of the Union looms into sight? US jobs disappoint and, once again, revea...
Are markets mad? Bits of the economy are booming. Bidenomics is about much more than economics. Was zero covid ever a possibility?
05 May 2021
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Europe says Covid scarring is forever: America disagrees. US economy booms, Europe is in recession. Tech profits: US has them, Europe does not.
30 Apr 2021
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Counting the cost of Covid - properly. What could have been done better? And proper post-Covid economic policy
27 Apr 2021
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Taxes going up in the US and Ireland; EU economy takes off; Ponies stuck in Brexit limbo
24 Apr 2021
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SMEs face many headwinds but represent future of the economy. A conversation with Neil McDonnell, CEO of ISME
21 Apr 2021
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A bit of economic history, name-checking T K Whitaker, the insurance problem, inequitable taxation, ...
Suppression of competition and debate.
20 Apr 2021
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Ignore the headlines & hype about taxation of Apple, Google, Amazon & the rest: here are the surprising facts
16 Apr 2021
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The chatter around global corporate taxation grows ever louder with the OECD, the EU and now Joe Bid...
Irish business says the outlook is getting much better; inflation and the threat to the recovery; pandemic solidarity taxes: an idea whose time has come?
14 Apr 2021
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Biden is coming for your corporation taxes; more on experts who lie and experts who just get it wrong
09 Apr 2021
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Spinning the Covid Data on Outdoor Risks; Review of Q1 Economies & Markets; New IMF Forecasts for the World Economy
06 Apr 2021
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A hedge fund in trouble. Again. Trouble ahead for all of us? And a radical suggestion: move the capital from Dublin to Belfast.
30 Mar 2021
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A minor Covid rant, the surprising Suez Canal, disagreeing (a bit) with Martin Sandbu, legalising recreational drugs in NY State.
26 Mar 2021
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Once more with feeling: asking the tough Covid questions
23 Mar 2021
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A lockdown cry of pain, perhaps even protest; Varadkar tries his hand at economics
19 Mar 2021
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Is the EU facing another existential crisis? Vaccine and economic incompetence.
17 Mar 2021
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Biden's boom; Is the 12 year bull market in equities over?; Davy implosion
13 Mar 2021
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Global economy on fire: Biden's New New Deal. What does it mean for the world?
09 Mar 2021
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Connecting Irish Unemployment, Exchequer Returns, Rishi Sunak & GNI*
04 Mar 2021
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Banks, banking and branch closures
02 Mar 2021
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28 Feb 2021
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