The Other Hand

Jim Power & Chris Johns

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/privacy for more information.

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Oct 15, 2022 • 39min

Liz Truss is toast. The ramifications for all of us are becoming clear: the global financial system is creaking badly.

With a rant about the Planning system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 12, 2022 • 34min

What is going on in the UK? Will Liz Truss be gone by Christmas? Is this the start of another financial crisis?

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Oct 8, 2022 • 37min

London's most expensive house up for sale. 'Lehman moments' can crop up in the most unexpected of places. Is Londongrad next on Putin;s annexation list?

London House Prices. Everybody's House Price. Credit Suisse. Larry Summers. Germany's huge fiscal expansion. All this and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 5, 2022 • 34min

Ireland is drowning in cash. The UK isn't. The Conservative party is ungovernable - maybe all this is connected..

The UK has a growth problem. Ireland doesn't. Ireland's Finance Minister has loadsa money. The UK Chancellor is still looking for cash. Watching the Conservative party implode would be funny if it were not so serious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 29, 2022 • 38min

A tale of two islands. One well run, the other not so much.

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Sep 26, 2022 • 35min

Remember the PIGS? Now they are the UPIGS. The UK becomes a submerging market. The political centre is collapsing everywhere.

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Sep 20, 2022 • 36min

Budget 2023. Infantilised societies. Being poor in Ireland means you are 63% better off than your equivalent in the UK. Central bankers playing Tarzan risk swinging into a tree.

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.

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.

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