The Other Hand

354 Episodes

1. Stock markets to fall 50%? Bitcoin signals risk ahead. Disappearing cash. Inflation: cost-of-living crisis looms. Who will replace Boris Johnson?

   Published: 1/21/2022
2. Bitcoin & Crypto: a response to our critics. Wealth taxes: now is the time? We try to avoid it but it isn't possible not to talk about Johnson.

   Published: 1/18/2022
3. Our top financial tip for 2022! What about crypto? Johnson's latest gamble - could it save him? Covid is so much worse in Ireland, why? And an apology for tech glitch.

   Published: 1/11/2022
4. America's next civil war: has it started? 10% of Londoners had Covid on New year's Eve. If hospitals fall over, blame the anti-vaxxers.

   Published: 1/5/2022
5. A Covid rant. Ireland is doing very well on a number of key metrics. Foreign investors like a lot about the country

   Published: 12/22/2021
6. Higher mortgage rates on the way? Blame Covid. Even we didn't see the 8.00pm evidence-free shutdown. It's their party and they all go when they want to.

   Published: 12/18/2021
7. Tory rebels hate Plan B. Just wait til they see Plan C. A look at the deteriorating Covid situation and what the data says right now. Christmas and Boris both under threat.

   Published: 12/15/2021
8. UK and German politics: 3 ring circus compared to grown-up governance. Inflation: Summers ponders a US recession yet US equities are at all all-time high.

   Published: 12/11/2021
9. Boom! Tax revenues up strongly again. Is the stage set for giveaway budgets? Where do conspiracy theorists get their beliefs? Transitory inflation is no more: it's just inflation.

   Published: 12/2/2021
10. Brexit and the end of the UK land-bridge? COVID: Omicron policy response becomes Moronic. What drives anti-vaxxers?

    Published: 11/30/2021
11. Stagflation with no sign of the stag. Economic growth resurges, at least in the US - perhaps to remarkable levels. Dollar strength no deterrent to weekend shopping trips to NYC.

    Published: 11/25/2021
12. Housing & vultures. Covid restrictions & revolts. Marijuana - there's an app for that.

    Published: 11/22/2021
13. Panto season starts early: Covid, unlike Cinderella, only comes out at midnight. Apparently. Out and about in Dublin. If the game is truly rigged which way to go: extreme right or left?

    Published: 11/16/2021
14. Forecasts for the economy double. Inflation also up a lot. Does debt matter? Shinners in government - mind your pension.

    Published: 11/13/2021
15. One year on from the first vaccine. Stock markets signalling all is now fine: rational markets or just another bubble? Why is there no ambition for Dublin?

    Published: 11/10/2021
16. Bank of England stumbles and sterling falls. The tax boom is getting boomier.

    Published: 11/6/2021
17. Global inflation and supply chain problems are getting worse. Are higher interest rates the answer? Does COP26 need a touch of CBT?

    Published: 11/3/2021
18. Mafia-style elites govern us all. But are they making a mistake?

    Published: 10/30/2021
19. Economists still don't know what causes inflation? Is it, today, a nice problem to have? Can Johnson keep his electoral coalition intact?

    Published: 10/28/2021
20. Booming tax revenues on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sunak & Johnson in conflict or just setting up pre-election tax cuts? Strange economics of financing de-carbonisation.

    Published: 10/21/2021