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Is $4,000 Gold the First Crack in the Fiat Era?
Season 2025 Episode 95
Broadcasting from under the Hollywood sign in the middle of a rare Californian downpour, we follow the water straight into the gold. Starting with LA as a city built on pure imagination, we jump back…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Hollywood, Soft Power & Ireland’s Anti-American Left?
Season 2025 Episode 94
Reporting from West Hollywood, in a rock ’n’ roll hotel with no parties and no drugs as house rules. We take a walk down Sunset Boulevard and into the strange engine of L.A.: a city built almost enti…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Vibecession, AI Mania & The New Casino Economy with Kyla Scanlon
Season 2025 Episode 93
Live at Kilkenomics, we welcome Roscommon's own economics star Kyla Scanlon author of In This Economy for a fast, funny, and razor-sharp tour of where money and mood collide. We get into her “vibeces…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Tech Crash, The Demographic Time Bomb, and Ireland’s Future 40
Season 2025 Episode 92
A tech bubble always feels rational until it doesn’t, as Wall Street fuses with Silicon Valley and the entire American economy becomes a single hyper-leveraged bet on AI, we trace the early tremors: …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Pope’s Children at 20: How Ireland Grew Up
Season 2025 Episode 91
Twenty years ago, The Pope’s Children changed how Ireland saw itself; a country high on credit, confidence, and Celtic Tiger ambition. Two decades later, we’re back where it all began: the suburbs, t…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Australia, Argentina & Ireland: A Tale of Three Economies
Season 2025 Episode 90
Australia is the country Argentina should’ve been, and the country Ireland could become. Seventy years ago, Argentina and Australia stood side by side as the world’s great hopes, rich in land, resour…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Life Raft for Billionaires: Why Tech Titans Are Buying New Zealand
Season 2025 Episode 89
As Ireland square up to the All Blacks at the weekend, we are all New Zealand this week, podcasting from the edge of the world, Richie McCaw's old stomping Christchurch, New Zealand. We explore why t…
Published on 2 months ago
The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin
Season 2025 Episode 88
Somewhere between a biker bar in Nimbin and a data centre in Virginia, we try to make sense of the biggest capital boom in history. The AI revolution has garnered $400 billion of spending this year a…
Published on 2 months ago
The Lost Sailors: From Aboriginals to Schumpeter
Season 2025 Episode 87
Deep in an Australian rainforest, surrounded by birds older than any cathedral, We unpack one of the greatest mysteries in human history, how the first people to sail across open seas, 60,000 years a…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
The Land of Opportunity Down Under: Australia
Season 2025 Episode 86
Cycling through Brisbane in the heat, we've found a country that hasn’t had a recession in nearly half a century; a statistical miracle in modern capitalism. Australia’s economy has grown steadily si…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago