Jim Power & Chris Johns
The Other Hand
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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Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
At last! the solution to the housing crisis: build match boxes! 10.07.2025 32:46
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? 06.07.2025 40:51
Not much Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10% tariffs + 15% exchange rate hit = economic carnage?. 02.07.2025 34:41
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? 27.06.2025 26:00
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 se...
War: A podcast special 23.06.2025 33:26
Nobody knows anything Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are house prices really that high? Stagflation, interest rates and Switzerland 22.06.2025 28:43
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 19.06.2025 32:00
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? 15.06.2025 35:12
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? 11.06.2025 33:05
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? 08.06.2025 32:19
"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 05.06.2025 34:30
Transatlantic betrayal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Trump family enriches itself. In plain sight 01.06.2025 32:08
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? 28.05.2025 30:53
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? 24.05.2025 28:35
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 22.05.2025 31:53
Immigration redux. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Money for nothing. 'More': is that really what gives us meaning? 21.05.2025 37:32
In conversation with Joan Mulvihill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Ireland is no longer Irish". Discuss 17.05.2025 31:12
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. 14.05.2025 30:00
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. 09.05.2025 34:24
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 07.05.2025 34:42
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? 04.05.2025 31:10
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? 30.04.2025 30:56
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. 27.04.2025 27:41
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 24.04.2025 31:24
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? 20.04.2025 34:36
Is Europe now a better place to live than America? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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