The Other Hand

Everything really is connected to everything else Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We really are doing economic policy all wrong Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They really deserved to win this one Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Charlotte Cavaillé is a global expert on inequality and redistribution. Her extensive research program has reframed the discussion such that our perceptions of fairness are front and centre. With some surprising results. In many countries, particularly the US and UK, inequality has risen. Economists might argue that self-interested electorates, which contain increasing numbers of people...

Do we have a right brain problem? Author and journalist Matthew Syed said so in a recent fascinating Sunday Times column. Professor of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, Shane O'Mara, says no. So why is our political discourse, pretty much everywhere, so polarised, context & nuance free, and just so nasty? Why, when we know, with as much certainty as we can muster, that the world is a ver...

Are equities heading for an October event? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Batten down the hatches? Fat chance Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time for rocket scientists to stop blowing up the (economic) world Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an Irish Times Article that has gone globally viral, journalist Nathan Johns, @nathanrjohns, analysed data that suggests S. Africa might have won that match. Perhaps even deserved to win that match. But they lost. Why? Numbers are not quite everything it seems. Nearly everything, but not everything. Chris looks forward to a Wales victory in the semi final. Maybe even against Ireland. Hosted on...

A big week in financial markets: bond yields are up to multi-year highs. All other asset prices have been affected. Equities are down, exchange rates are all over the place. The new narrative is interest rates 'higher for longer'. Wethink this could be yet another narrative fallacy. Interest rates were left unchanged in the US and UK following the ECB's latest dopey hike. Economies are weakening u...

Latest data and forecasts for the Irish economy suggest 'growing but slowing' Unemployment is forecast to stay very low - essentially an economy at full employment Unemployment in many countries is forecast to stay low, despite low or no growth. That's because labour markets have been puzzlingly tight for years. Are we just extrapolating the recent past and forgetting that unemployment could rise?...

Lots of great rugby over the last two weekends. Uruguay scare France by playing running rugby. Really entertaining stuff. One poor clearance kick undid the Uruguayans. The kicking game. Tonga show Ireland up at the breakdown. Another problem for Paul O'Connell England, so boring - but so what? A tight point spread for Ireland S. Africa? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US inflation rose again last month: is the good news over? The Saudi-Russian alliance seems determined to get oil prices up to $100. That could mean €2+ for a litre or petrol and/or diesel. Interest rates look to be in 'higher for longer mode'. There is nothing good that flows from $100 oil - other than an economic slowdown/recession that will cut fossil fuel consumption & help, a little, the...

Euro area economy is weak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest Irish government tax and spending figures have prompted lots of questions. Not least: is the corporation tax bonza over? Economists and budgetary watchdogs are only doing their job when they warn about spending one-off, or windfall, tax receipts. But the upcoming budget will be as big a political event as it will be about economics. Arguably the most intensely political budget in a very lon...

The Other Hand's occasional coverage of the Rugby World Cup starts here! An ongoing conversation with Irish Times journalist Nathan Johns. Enjoy some proper rugby analysis, a little rugby banter, free of cliche and jargon, from a journalist who really does know his stuff. In today's episode we set the scene by asking whether the RWC can be as unifying a force for France as was the 1998 soccer worl...

Our latest podcast is up, a conversation between Chris and Shane O’Mara, Professor of Brain Science at Trinity. Shane, a prolific best-selling author, has a brilliant new book out -   Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds  And a terrific Substack:  BrainPizza , well worth a sign-up. In today's pod: Who is coming for Ted Cruz's beer and why is he so ang...

You couldn't make it up Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The battle to be Trump's VP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brace for another ECB policy mistake Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rental crisis goes global. So does the bond crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reminder: it's August Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Governments can't solve every problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we change our minds? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did WW3 just start? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.