Podcast Episodes

Orange is the new Red

Episode 83

Biden just about, but Orange is the new Red. The Trump family business has taken over the GOP. What does this mean? Why the Democrats need to find their inner Roosevelt and why pollsters give economi…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

A Good Day to hide Bad News!

Episode 82

We’re avoiding America, (well mostly) today as we can’t add much more. We’re going all Covid. There might not be a right answer for how to tackle the pandemic, but there’s certainly a wide array of a…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Market & Politics - Why Who Wins Matters & Why It Doesn’t

In this special episode, we look at the relationship between politics and money through the lens of the US elections. 

We try to make sense of what you should be looking out for and what each candidat…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Skin in the Game

Episode 81

3 Mile Pubs, why public servants don’t get business, why cashflow is King, the Grantocracy, Hydraulic economics, and what Flann O’ Brien had to say about PhDs

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Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

The Funeral of Austerity & the Return of Brexit, plus when an Opel Jersey walked into the Tate Gallery!

Episode 80

This was the week austerity died. We explore the timely end of a bad idea and look forward to a new era for economics. Plus what the Modh Coinníollach tells us about economics . Also, an in-depth con…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

A gem of a Letter from America with the brilliant Tom Frank

Episode 79

Why dereliction is vandalism in Ireland and then off to Kansas with the author of NYT’s mega best-seller, “What’s the Matter with Kansas”, American journalist and historian Thomas Frank. This convers…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

How will Trump getting Covid affect the campaign, and why Ireland’s youth should determine the budget.

Episode 78

The legend that is Professor Bill Black on the USA. This is the man who put more white collar criminals behind bars than any other. He’s an economist, lawyer and criminal psychologist and he brings t…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

Economics at a tipping point

Episode 77

Economics is at a tipping point, as we lockdown again, how can we remain solvent, avoid national and international bankruptcy and deploy all the possible economics tools at our disposal. We are facin…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

How the UK breaks up….lessons from the Balkans, plus Trump’s possible road to victory

It’s been a monumental week - with the help of American policy analyst Pippa Malmgren - we look at what might be the unintended consequences of Boris Johnson’s action and why all eyes are on African …

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Back to Brexit

Once again the British government uses Ireland as a hostage in its Brexit theatre with the EU. The record is on repeat. Brexit has now returned and this time its even more mental. We breakdown the la…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago