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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The business of sport - in conversation with rising motor racing star Alex Denning 18.04.2025 33:23

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 15.04.2025 34:15

Against it Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China gets slammed. China retaliates. Rinse and repeat. 11.04.2025 30:00

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? 08.04.2025 28:00

The foundations of the world economy are cracking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is a global recession imminent? 07.04.2025 28:05

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.... 05.04.2025 32:38

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. 01.04.2025 29:31

Upping the tariff war ante Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new cold war: The US v. everyone else 28.03.2025 31:09

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? 25.03.2025 40:17

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? 23.03.2025 36:05

Dark MAGA dismantles America Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The coming constitutional crises - in more than one country 20.03.2025 33:31

Greed is not good Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy St Patrick's Day! Ireland's place in the world - the threats and opportunities 17.03.2025 33:58

Some advice: don't be like the UK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump is unbound and unhinged. At least the stock market has worked it out. 14.03.2025 34:14

Taking the knee is all very well but..... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MAGA is all in. Even a stock market crash is not going to change hearts or minds 11.03.2025 29:10

The most important moment for Europe since the Berlin Wall came down Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In conversation with Dan Davies, author of "The Unaccountability Machine" 05.03.2025 54:31

From Brad de Long's review of the book: Understanding how to make our systems more accountable and more human may not be the key to our survival, but it is certainly the key to our happiness and prosperity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The West is over. Get over it. 02.03.2025 31:11

The EU must transform itself or die Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can the EU survive the collapse of the post-WW2 world order? 23.02.2025 34:06

Not without big changes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to cope with a pro-Russian cult that is trying to destroy any idea of "The West" 20.02.2025 34:16

Hide Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The US gives Europe the finger 16.02.2025 34:22

Trump aligns with Moscow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will the West unite against its new common enemy? (That's America, in case you hadn't guessed) 11.02.2025 34:25

Canada should join the EU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finding nobility in the health service. Something notably absent in the White House 05.02.2025 31:53

Why cause chaos? 'Because I can'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Should the first act of Ireland's new government be an emergency budget? 24.01.2025 28:11

Hoping for the best and not preparing for the worst Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wanted: politicians who fill in potholes. Delivery, delivery, delivery 22.01.2025 29:03

Where is Ireland's charismatic right-wing rabble rouser? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you warming to Donald Trump? 20.01.2025 29:35

Day 1 of the new era Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to stop Farage from being the next UK Prime Minister 16.01.2025 29:31

Could 2025 be the year of peak populism? The year of 'the great awakening' of normal people? The MAGAisation of corporate America: something that is already looking like overreach and is sewing the seeds of its own destruction. Radical delivery is now demanded: policies to make things better - at least to make things work again. Spain is giving it a go with some radical proposals to solve its hous...