Jim Power & Chris Johns

The Other Hand

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Economics and finance demystified. A recent listener's comment: "I first heard about ChatGPT on your podcast and immediately started using it. I’m 73 and wrote my first program at 16. Having witnessed all developments in computing down the years I think this is the greatest since www. Your pod is informative in many different areas, politics, economics, society changes, housing crisis etc but at times goes beyond that. This episode tying up all this but also the implications of AI with a knowledgeable guest. ENTHRALLING! Keep it coming." cjpeconomics.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

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Jim Power & Chris Johns

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A radical suggestion for budget 2024: cut taxes for the under 35s. Another ECB mistake in the offing? Dynamic beer pricing has arrived. 13.09.2023 30:57

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

Is this the beginning of the end of the (corporation) tax boom? The most intensely political budget looms 10.09.2023 34:49

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 Rugby World Cup Begins! A belter of an opening match followed by almost two months of the ultimate rugby festival. 08.09.2023 28:10

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...

A neuroscientist and an economist walk into a bar 07.09.2023 41:18

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...

Inflation falls - then rises because of official policy measures to boost prices. Followed by budget 2024 measures to mitigate the cost of living crisis 02.09.2023 27:18

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

Abolish planning laws to cure housing crisis? Lessons from bombing London. Monetary dinosaurs spotted in Germany. 30.08.2023 28:46

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

Unemployment cured, Irish style. EU slips into recession? The UK is not London. 27.08.2023 33:43

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

China: it's getting serious. What does it mean for the world? 23.08.2023 28:52

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

Bond market crash - why this is so important. China crisis? Our ignorance about inflation. 20.08.2023 33:46

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

More dystopian fiction from the ITimes. UK inflation horrors. Italian anti-business right-wing politics. 17.08.2023 31:53

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

Truthiness, populism and stochastic parrots. Think you know how your brain works? Neuroscientist Professor Shane O'Mara takes us through the exciting and fascinating developments in how we think. 14.08.2023 46:35

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

Why not spend the €65bn on social housing? Should we rescue people from their financial folly? Biden builds on Trump's policies. 12.08.2023 33:38

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

Ireland and the BBC. Banks deserve everything they are about to get. China deflates? 09.08.2023 31:18

Slowdown drums beat louder Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mortgage rates and savings rates: banks go for the better PR. Are their mega profits sustainable? 05.08.2023 28:39

Will America survive a second Trump Presidency? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Turbulence over Dublin Airport. EV sales take off but might lose power. 02.08.2023 29:16

Landings soft and hard Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A much bigger story than RTE goes unreported. Lots of economic data confuses more than it clarifies 30.07.2023 34:17

If bankers want market salaries there needs to be more banks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Big week for interest rates, but is the peak getting further away with recent rises in commodity prices? Global economic data is painting a very mixed picture. 26.07.2023 32:06

Where will Wagner go next? Poland? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Putin trying to get your mortgage rate up? Food prices under threat again. China is caught between a rock and a hard place. 23.07.2023 33:57

Voters don't like paying for climate mitigation. Make the alternatives cheaper! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ireland booms or just avoids recession? Falling exports - technical or threat to growth and public finances? 20.07.2023 33:52

IS the UK a developing economy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has Ryan Tubridy done the nation a great service? If inflation is coming back down all on its own, why raise interest rates? The UK is literally getting sick. 17.07.2023 35:05

Why is UK inflation orders of magnitude more than anywhere else? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If central bankers get their way, your house price could fall - perhaps by a lot. The many mysteries of modern economics. 07.07.2023 33:55

Confused? You will be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ireland's embarrassment of riches? Tax revenues explode in the first half of 2023. What to do with them? 05.07.2023 27:08

Make Irish yoghurt great again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RTE, celebrity pay and hopeless governance. Bidenomics: some surprising consequences. The usual suspects tell McGrath not to cut taxes. He will ignore them. . 02.07.2023 34:57

Zero GDP growth and a booming economy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Interest rates start to bite. House prices, obviously, but also in some unexpected places. UK water companies just one example - plenty of others. 30.06.2023 33:07

Does the IMF really think corporate profits are responsible for inflation? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seven years on from the Brexit referendum. Still as controversial as ever, despite the evidence saying there is no controversy. Dealing with complexity in a world that excludes experts. 28.06.2023 48:25

In conversation with top British Brexit expert, Professor Chris Grey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.