The Other Hand
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AI, ChatGPT3 (and 4): hype or revolutionary? Will Microsoft eat Google’s lunch? Plus the latest economic news and our thoughts about the monetary nutcases at the ECB
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Rugby special! As the 6 Nations gets underway we speak to Irish Times sports journalist Nathan Johns. Why were Ireland so good and Wales so poor? Prospects for the next match and beyond.
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What recession? US economy confuses everybody. So does the head of the ECB. The disconnect between the UK and its stock market. The Irish tax machine refuses to slow down.
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Three years of Brexit, three more years of Brexit BS. Eurozone economy still doing better than expected. IMF forecasts Russia to grow and the UK to shrink.
Fighting over a pie that doesn't grow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
US economy refuses to go into recession. Will anybody notice the better Irish housing data? Shinners hoist their own petards. UK opens up another futile front on the war on drugs.
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Energy prices down again. Eurozone economy starts growing but the UK does not. Politicians in difficulties on both sides of the Irish Sea: two ex-finance minister under fire. One will keep his current job.
Boiled frogs and dots joined. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Donohoe's expenses row: materiality, proportionality & hypocrisy. Is Sinn Fein really an all-Ireland party? Tech & Banks in trouble?
Chinese demography and the interest rate outlook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest economic data. The big housing questions: does the government understand the true nature of the housing crisis? Does Sinn Fein?
A simple explanation of the Uk's trilemma. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More good news on inflation. More good news for the Irish economy. The UK: still digging in a vey deep hole. Amazing insights into the state of US politics.
A debate about which health system is in worse shape Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is the economic outlook really as awful as everyone says? NIMBYs are active on both sides of the Irish Sea - both left and right say don't build here.
Looking up at the stars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Some good news on inflation, better news on gas prices, same old news on Irish tax revenues and the UK's very deep hole
And what others are saying about the 2023 outlook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Looking back and looking forward. Where will forecasters be wrong for 2023? Just how bad has Brexit been for the UK? Mind your language!
Is Britain broken or just a bit cracked? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Japan springs a major surprise for global markets. EU trying to cap energy prices. Broken Britain part 42.
Hotels start to house their own workers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcast special! In conversation with Ben Watts. A deep dive into the energy world with all of the obvious, topical, questions. Build more wind farms!
It's a no-brainer: costs & the environment demand confronting the NIMBYs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Central bankers spook markets. Will they overdo it and cause a crisis? Global housing crash? The NHS in 'systemic failure'.
Who is happiest? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Has the peak in inflation finally arrived? Watch what politicians do, not what they say: Fine Gael is a left-wing party. Germany's Ukraine inconsistencies. Listeners reviews and comments.
Jim worries about a charisma deficit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Irish inflation falls but electricity prices rise 63%. Food prices are up, as are farmer's profits. Where is the urgency to get cheaper energy? energy security? OpenAI's Chatbot will change the world.
Tech woes persist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The lean, mean, green tax machine that is the Irish economy. The US is forecast to be in slowing but isn't. The EU is. Has the $ turned? The logic & ethics of the oil price cap.
The Economist opines on sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A conversation with Noah Smith. Polymath, renaissance man: neither description does justice to this extraordinary writer. Intelligence, wit and wisdom in abundance. And optimism.
This really is worth a listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A bubble in predicting the end of the world? Why the latest data suggests that Armageddon isn't immediately obvious. Podcasting and freedom of speech.
A United Ireland: when rather than if? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Centuries of the patriarchy. Listening to our listeners. What's going on in China? Latest news on the economy
Slowing not crashing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
'Failed State' narrative gets another boost from record employment numbers. The strange behaviour of MEPs and oil prices. A solution for inequality
Investment advice from Nigel Farage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New analysis & forecasts from the OECD. A new narrative for the UK: Brexit is bad enough but that's by no means the only thing going wrong. Maidan & Kennedy anniversaries remembered.
The perils of public speaking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A special edition of the Pod! Professor Chris Grey, leading commentator, blogger and broadcaster joins us for an in-depth discussion of where we are, 6 1/2 years after the referendum.
It isn't pretty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The UK: run by two posh boys who don't know the price of milk? That UK-Ireland economic gap is truly remarkable. Why is the World Cup in Qatar?
NYC has a rat problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ireland: best placed economy in the world to withstand the coming recession? UK: how to get really angry about political lying and BS economics.
Will Trumpism survive Trump? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Crypto crash & Musk mutters about Twitter's potential bankruptcy. How bad could this be for Ireland. Stockmarkets don't seem to care - they are up on abating interest rate & inflation worries. Premature?
Ireland's first economic shock since the last one Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tech woes continue. Elon Musk wants to charge us - what a strange concept. The end of the global property price bubble? The end of the crypto bubble?
And the UK political circus continues Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Should Ireland give the UK a dig out? Are central banks about to blow decades of hard won credibility and cause an unnecessary economic slump?
It's going to be particularly bad in the UK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What do Liz Truss and Sinn Fein have in common? Fantasy politics continue in the UK but does economic policy now make sense?
Recession signs are building Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The end the tech boom? The end of Ireland's corporation tax boom? How sick is the social media business model? Cracks appear in housing.
The world is slowing down Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sunak: destined for failure. Is Xi Jing-Ping doing a Liz Truss? Drone wars. Falling wholesale energy prices.
Anton Krasovsky: remember that name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How did it come to this? Is the UK now a banana republic? Can anything be salvaged from the wreckage.
A dive into the chaos engulfing British politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Liz Truss is toast. The ramifications for all of us are becoming clear: the global financial system is creaking badly.
With a rant about the Planning system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What is going on in the UK? Will Liz Truss be gone by Christmas? Is this the start of another financial crisis?
Ireland's top-ranked business show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
London's most expensive house up for sale. 'Lehman moments' can crop up in the most unexpected of places. Is Londongrad next on Putin;s annexation list?
London House Prices. Everybody's House Price. Credit Suisse. Larry Summers. Germany's huge fiscal expansion. All this and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ireland is drowning in cash. The UK isn't. The Conservative party is ungovernable - maybe all this is connected..
The UK has a growth problem. Ireland doesn't. Ireland's Finance Minister has loadsa money. The UK Chancellor is still looking for cash. Watching the Conservative party implode would be funny if it were not so serious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A tale of two islands. One well run, the other not so much.
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Remember the PIGS? Now they are the UPIGS. The UK becomes a submerging market. The political centre is collapsing everywhere.
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Budget 2023. Infantilised societies. Being poor in Ireland means you are 63% better off than your equivalent in the UK. Central bankers playing Tarzan risk swinging into a tree.
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Absolutely nobody thinks that Ireland needs a tax cut. Absolutely everybody thinks somebody else's taxes should go up. Is King Charles up to the task? Probably not.
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The US 'Civil War' & the kip that is San Fransicko. Macho central bankers? Dystopian Ireland: edition 42.
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Central banks warn of significant and painful rate hikes to come. Another Lehman moment? Time for policymakers to wake up to the enormity of the energy crisis.
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Is Ireland really so unfair? Some facts that will change no populist minds. Danger ahead from PM Truss. Time to worry about China?
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Rents go nuts on both sides of the Atlantic. Shinners display their dislike of anyone making a few quid. Some rare good news about the US economy. Some less good news for the UK.
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Is Ireland destined to follow the populist path? Energy bills to hit €5000? BoE outlook is terrifying. Liz Truss is the continuity Johnson PM. Pelosi: right or wrong? Windfall energy profit taxes?
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Recession on both sides of the Atlantic - so stock markets go up. "Cakeism goes full gateau" in UK politics
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How high will European interest rates go? How much of a mistake is the ECB about to make? Italy's existential threat to the euro; the UK's existential problem. The problems with free market ideology.
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Britain's broken politics: the Tories are a pound-shop version of Trump's Republican party. The world's inflation problem just keeps getting worse.
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Johnson's populism has wrecked the UK. Fixing it is beyond any of his likely successors. Ireland's peculiar populism - Shinners in power but not (yet) in office - will lead to a fiscal crisis.
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