The Other Hand

Jim Power & Chris Johns

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Sep 16, 2022 • 38min

Absolutely nobody thinks that Ireland needs a tax cut. Absolutely everybody thinks somebody else's taxes should go up. Is King Charles up to the task? Probably not.

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Sep 10, 2022 • 46min

The US 'Civil War' & the kip that is San Fransicko. Macho central bankers? Dystopian Ireland: edition 42.

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Aug 28, 2022 • 17min

Central banks warn of significant and painful rate hikes to come. Another Lehman moment? Time for policymakers to wake up to the enormity of the energy crisis.

Aug 19, 2022 • 40min

Is Ireland really so unfair? Some facts that will change no populist minds. Danger ahead from PM Truss. Time to worry about China?

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Aug 13, 2022 • 39min

Rents go nuts on both sides of the Atlantic. Shinners display their dislike of anyone making a few quid. Some rare good news about the US economy. Some less good news for the UK.

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Aug 6, 2022 • 43min

Is Ireland destined to follow the populist path? Energy bills to hit €5000? BoE outlook is terrifying. Liz Truss is the continuity Johnson PM. Pelosi: right or wrong? Windfall energy profit taxes?

Jul 29, 2022 • 37min

Recession on both sides of the Atlantic - so stock markets go up. "Cakeism goes full gateau" in UK politics

Jul 22, 2022 • 38min

How high will European interest rates go? How much of a mistake is the ECB about to make? Italy's existential threat to the euro; the UK's existential problem. The problems with free market ideology.

Jul 16, 2022 • 38min

Britain's broken politics: the Tories are a pound-shop version of Trump's Republican party. The world's inflation problem just keeps getting worse.

Jul 9, 2022 • 40min

Johnson's populism has wrecked the UK. Fixing it is beyond any of his likely successors. Ireland's peculiar populism - Shinners in power but not (yet) in office - will lead to a fiscal crisis.

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