The Other Hand

354 Episodes

1. Irish house prices up again. Time to change the global growth narrative? Markets, the IMF & The Economist all have bought into stronger growth & higher interest rates.

   Published: 4/21/2024
2. Will Ireland go Dutch? Prolonged coalition negotiations likely if no party gets more than 30% of the GE vote.

   Published: 4/18/2024
3. It's beginning to look a lot like the 1930s

   Published: 4/16/2024
4. Higher for longer US interest rates = higher for longer mortgage rates in Ireland and U.K.

   Published: 4/14/2024
5. Irish reunification: the costs and other issues - many that haven't even been thought about

   Published: 4/11/2024
6. Getting ready for war in Europe? Competing narrative fallacies about markets.

   Published: 4/8/2024
7. Inflation falls again. But interest rates cut hopes fade. World economy fails to land - takes off instead.

   Published: 4/3/2024
8. Is free trade always and everywhere a good thing? Get ready for the 2nd China shock - the first one gave us Trump, Brexit and the populist plague

   Published: 3/31/2024
9. 'I didn't leave Fine Gael, they left me'. In conversation with leading journalist Sarah Carey

   Published: 3/27/2024
10. House prices firmly on the rise again. Leo exits.

    Published: 3/23/2024
11. War in Gaza, Ukraine and....Sudan. Give every new born a €5000 Global Equity ETF. First BoJ hike in 17 years

    Published: 3/21/2024
12. Signs of an economic acceleration? What's wrong with 4 - 5% interest rates? Zero rates were caused by crisis - we need a dose of normal

    Published: 3/17/2024
13. Are stock markets blowing another bubble? Are the comparisons with the dot.com era real or apparent?

    Published: 3/14/2024
14. Bumper corporate profits consistent with a winner-takes-all world. The budget circus starts early

    Published: 3/11/2024
15. The war on drugs: lost but still worth fighting? Trump's poll lead widens, Sinn Fein's narrows.

    Published: 3/8/2024
16. The non-recession recession. Weak exports: isolated or canary in the coal-mine?

    Published: 3/4/2024
17. Is Ireland in for a long period of no government? A good or bad thing? Banking needs much more competition.

    Published: 2/27/2024
18. The Trifecta of dysfunction. House prices rise again. Could the next move in US interest rates be up?

    Published: 2/23/2024
19. Biden's 'cognitive decline'. A conversation about staying well - or not - into old age with Professor of Neuroscience Shane O'Mara

    Published: 2/21/2024
20. In conversation with one of our critics. Sort of. Engaging with people who think differently. With the emphasis on engagement

    Published: 2/19/2024