The Other Hand

354 Episodes

1. Centuries of the patriarchy. Listening to our listeners. What's going on in China? Latest news on the economy

   Published: 11/29/2022
2. 'Failed State' narrative gets another boost from record employment numbers. The strange behaviour of MEPs and oil prices. A solution for inequality

   Published: 11/26/2022
3. New analysis & forecasts from the OECD. A new narrative for the UK: Brexit is bad enough but that's by no means the only thing going wrong. Maidan & Kennedy anniversaries remembered.

   Published: 11/24/2022
4. A special edition of the Pod! Professor Chris Grey, leading commentator, blogger and broadcaster joins us for an in-depth discussion of where we are, 6 1/2 years after the referendum.

   Published: 11/22/2022
5. The UK: run by two posh boys who don't know the price of milk? That UK-Ireland economic gap is truly remarkable. Why is the World Cup in Qatar?

   Published: 11/19/2022
6. Ireland: best placed economy in the world to withstand the coming recession? UK: how to get really angry about political lying and BS economics.

   Published: 11/16/2022
7. Crypto crash & Musk mutters about Twitter's potential bankruptcy. How bad could this be for Ireland. Stockmarkets don't seem to care - they are up on abating interest rate & inflation worries. Prematu

   Published: 11/12/2022
8. Tech woes continue. Elon Musk wants to charge us - what a strange concept. The end of the global property price bubble? The end of the crypto bubble?

   Published: 11/9/2022
9. Should Ireland give the UK a dig out? Are central banks about to blow decades of hard won credibility and cause an unnecessary economic slump?

   Published: 11/5/2022
10. What do Liz Truss and Sinn Fein have in common? Fantasy politics continue in the UK but does economic policy now make sense?

    Published: 11/1/2022
11. The end the tech boom? The end of Ireland's corporation tax boom? How sick is the social media business model? Cracks appear in housing.

    Published: 10/29/2022
12. Sunak: destined for failure. Is Xi Jing-Ping doing a Liz Truss? Drone wars. Falling wholesale energy prices.

    Published: 10/25/2022
13. How did it come to this? Is the UK now a banana republic? Can anything be salvaged from the wreckage.

    Published: 10/20/2022
14. Liz Truss is toast. The ramifications for all of us are becoming clear: the global financial system is creaking badly.

    Published: 10/15/2022
15. What is going on in the UK? Will Liz Truss be gone by Christmas? Is this the start of another financial crisis?

    Published: 10/12/2022
16. 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?

    Published: 10/8/2022
17. Ireland is drowning in cash. The UK isn't. The Conservative party is ungovernable - maybe all this is connected..

    Published: 10/5/2022
18. A tale of two islands. One well run, the other not so much.

    Published: 9/29/2022
19. Remember the PIGS? Now they are the UPIGS. The UK becomes a submerging market. The political centre is collapsing everywhere.

    Published: 9/26/2022
20. 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.

    Published: 9/20/2022