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Is the world economy re-accelerating? Populists politicians can't run a bath. All the latest data.
John Bruton RIP
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2 years, 6 months ago
Dr Strangelove returns? Dysfunction in Washington reaches new extremes. While the economy booms.
'Dr Strangelove' was a 1960s movie that satirised the cold war. It explored 'Mutually Assured Destruction' and was a riff, in a way, on 'game theory'…
2 years, 6 months ago
Magical thinking everywhere: IMF forecasts, abolition of The Irish Sea Border and much else.
Sleepwalking to war? Not so much!
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2 years, 6 months ago
Reasons to be cheerful - all things considered, we need them. Why are financial markets so exuberant?
The super soaraway US economy and stock market
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2 years, 6 months ago
Authoritarian populists threaten to take over everywhere - including Ireland. Why?
It's coming up the 75th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's 1984.
We discuss with professor Shane O'Mara the various psychological insig…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Bitter Lessons of Brexit - they haven't gone away you know. Was Darwin wrong? Time for gold to shine?
'The Bitter lessons of Brexit'. We all fervently wish that Brexit has gone away. It hasn't. It's more like a slow moving chronic disease but it is si…
2 years, 6 months ago
The return of Trump. Davos Concludes. Can we debate immigration rationally?
Trump is ahead in he polls and could be the next leader of the free world. He has promised to be a 'dictator for a day'
Will it be the catastrophe th…
2 years, 6 months ago
Irish GDP to shrink for 2nd year? How stupid are financial markets? Graduates join the Trump party
Latest trade data for Ireland suggest exports are struggling - for the first prolonged period in quite a while. That points to a world trade slowdown…
2 years, 6 months ago
What you believe about economic growth is probably wrong - because we know surprisingly little about. And signs of slowing growth are, well, growing.
Low or no economic growth is a bigger problem than most people realise.
What we don't know about growth might surprise you.
Too many country's are losi…
2 years, 7 months ago
China wants Taiwan - an important election approaches. Will Trump gift Ukraine and Taiwan? Latest inflation disappoints - markets react accordingly.
China wants Taiwan on the same terms that it took Hong Kong. 'One country two systems'. A bargain that Xi Jingping failed to honour. No wonder most T…
2 years, 7 months ago