
A Coming US Default?
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Importance of Infrastructure in Ireland
The Irish public infrastructure is appalling. We need to be run by engineers for about two decades, he says. This money spend it on public housing - you could provide all the public housing requirements of this country for free with this money. But what type of commercial society do we have to create? Because one of the dilemmas of a rich country is like the second generation children of rich people. Living off the inheritance, right? Yeah. So how do we as a society inject the entrepreneurial spark that is necessary to create a nation of startup businesses? The only way in which you become a society that can actually stand on its own two feet is if you're a commercial society. It's
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