The Other Hand

354 Episodes

1. Unemployment cured, Irish style. EU slips into recession? The UK is not London.

   Published: 8/27/2023
2. China: it's getting serious. What does it mean for the world?

   Published: 8/23/2023
3. Bond market crash - why this is so important. China crisis? Our ignorance about inflation.

   Published: 8/20/2023
4. More dystopian fiction from the ITimes. UK inflation horrors. Italian anti-business right-wing politics.

   Published: 8/17/2023
5. Truthiness, populism and stochastic parrots. Think you know how your brain works? Neuroscientist Professor Shane O'Mara takes us through the exciting and fascinating developments in how we think.

   Published: 8/14/2023
6. Why not spend the €65bn on social housing? Should we rescue people from their financial folly? Biden builds on Trump's policies.

   Published: 8/12/2023
7. Ireland and the BBC. Banks deserve everything they are about to get. China deflates?

   Published: 8/9/2023
8. Mortgage rates and savings rates: banks go for the better PR. Are their mega profits sustainable?

   Published: 8/5/2023
9. Turbulence over Dublin Airport. EV sales take off but might lose power.

   Published: 8/2/2023
10. A much bigger story than RTE goes unreported. Lots of economic data confuses more than it clarifies

    Published: 7/30/2023
11. Big week for interest rates, but is the peak getting further away with recent rises in commodity prices? Global economic data is painting a very mixed picture.

    Published: 7/26/2023
12. Is Putin trying to get your mortgage rate up? Food prices under threat again. China is caught between a rock and a hard place.

    Published: 7/23/2023
13. Ireland booms or just avoids recession? Falling exports - technical or threat to growth and public finances?

    Published: 7/20/2023
14. Has Ryan Tubridy done the nation a great service? If inflation is coming back down all on its own, why raise interest rates? The UK is literally getting sick.

    Published: 7/17/2023
15. If central bankers get their way, your house price could fall - perhaps by a lot. The many mysteries of modern economics.

    Published: 7/7/2023
16. Ireland's embarrassment of riches? Tax revenues explode in the first half of 2023. What to do with them?

    Published: 7/5/2023
17. RTE, celebrity pay and hopeless governance. Bidenomics: some surprising consequences. The usual suspects tell McGrath not to cut taxes. He will ignore them. .

    Published: 7/2/2023
18. Interest rates start to bite. House prices, obviously, but also in some unexpected places. UK water companies just one example - plenty of others.

    Published: 6/30/2023
19. Seven years on from the Brexit referendum. Still as controversial as ever, despite the evidence saying there is no controversy. Dealing with complexity in a world that excludes experts.

    Published: 6/28/2023
20. The UK: in a deep hole and still digging. The riskiness of the mortgage. Brexit: Good for Ireland?

    Published: 6/24/2023