The Other Hand
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Raising a flag to mark the demise of Western civilisation. Buying gold and selling...everything?
Is there a little bit of racism in all of us? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The UK Chancellor damages the economy, the Prime Minister-in-waiting sullies the country
An Irish presidential hopeful that Jim can support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ireland is one of the richest, most equal societies on earth. Go figure.
How did wind and solar become a matter of anti-wokism? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peace in our time? Probably not. 'MAGA Marxism' - count the ironies, follow the money
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
A theory of everything that is going wrong Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Can The EU survive MAGA? The ultimate test looms.
A worthwhile Canadian initiative: stand up to Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unemployment rises for the first time in a while. Tax receipts still booming.
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
Trump plays with bond market fire Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is data on the US now fundamentally corrupted?
All exports to the US to go through the six counties? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump bends reality - but for how long?
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?
Farage looks like a shoe-in for Prime Minister. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A cunning plan. It might just work !
Long thought to be extinct - evidence of strategic thinking spotted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump breaks with Murdoch. And the US economy keeps humming along
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
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
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!
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?
Not much Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10% tariffs + 15% exchange rate hit = economic carnage?.
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?
We begin with a slightly idiosyncratic - and highly stylised - discussion of how Ireland went from a nation of farmers to a high-tech economy, missing out on industrialisation. Our focus is on one very simple question: Having got Ireland to ‘here’, why is the current crop of leaders incapable of dealing with known problems that have known solutions?Previous generations of politicians and civil servants eventually took big and brave decisions. Perhaps backbone discovery requires a crisis. But we have had plenty of those recently, and have at least one right now. And nothing ever changes. Where are the giants now? The ones who, like Alan Dukes - and others - many years ago, took great personal career risks to do the right thing?Has democracy reached its limits? Small, sometimes single-person, blocking coalitions can impede or stop any policy they don’t like. NIMBYism on steroids. Many economies will recognise this one.Today’s crop of very smart politicians have worked out that the route to success - or mere survival - is to never make a mistake, never annoy anyone. That means never taking a decision. Let others do that and watch them fall by the wayside. Rise without trace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
War: A podcast special
Nobody knows anything Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are house prices really that high? Stagflation, interest rates and Switzerland
Normalisation of the grotesque continues apace Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is there a good rationale for bombing Iran? All the latest data. More totalitarian steps in the US
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?
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?
Rent controls don't work. They usually make things worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The economy is going gangbusters. Or not. Dublin & London subsidise everybody else. Why?
"Empathy will destroy Western civilisation" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ireland & the UK: 2 countries, 1 rich, 1 not so much. 3 crises & neither doing anything about them
Transatlantic betrayal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Trump family enriches itself. In plain sight
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?
Harvard and Apple complete the trifecta of destruction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
No big tariff consequences in the data - yet. Ireland still going gangbusters?
How many words for unceratinty are there? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MAGA split. Fiscal crisis brewing in the US? Brexit boredom in the UK
Immigration redux. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Money for nothing. 'More': is that really what gives us meaning?
In conversation with Joan Mulvihill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Ireland is no longer Irish". Discuss
What, exactly, is wrong with immigration? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump chickens out. Starmer veers right and loses middle England.
Time to welcome foreigners to our universities Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Performative trade deals. The UK pays protection money to the Mob.
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
Irish Exchequer returns and the sound of weeping from Downing Street Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Financial markets think it's (nearly) all over. Are they right?
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?
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.
Germany's most protracted slump since WW2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump starts to show up in the global economic data. The IMF adds to the gloom
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?
Is Europe now a better place to live than America? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The business of sport - in conversation with rising motor racing star Alex Denning
It's nearly all about money. But talent helps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Unites States unites the world
Against it Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
China gets slammed. China retaliates. Rinse and repeat.
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?
The foundations of the world economy are cracking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is a global recession imminent?
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....
And just a little bit about the breakdown of the world economy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Keir Starmer falls into Donald Trump's trap. Liberation day looms.
Upping the tariff war ante Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The new cold war: The US v. everyone else
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?
Jim talks to Mark Hedderman, President of the LIA, about the new and evolving world of Irish personal finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transitory inflation is back. Is the era of full employment drawing to a close?
Dark MAGA dismantles America Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.