Dr Strangelove returns? Dysfunction in Washington reaches new extremes. While the economy booms.
'Dr Strangelove' was a 1960s movie that satirised the cold war. It explored 'Mutually Assured Destruction' and was a riff, in a way, on 'game theory'. A number of characters have emerged that echo Str...
5 Feb 202437min
Magical thinking everywhere: IMF forecasts, abolition of The Irish Sea Border and much else.
Sleepwalking to war? Not so much! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
31 Jan 202435min
Reasons to be cheerful - all things considered, we need them. Why are financial markets so exuberant?
The super soaraway US economy and stock market Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
28 Jan 202434min
Authoritarian populists threaten to take over everywhere - including Ireland. Why?
It's coming up the 75th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's 1984.We discuss with professor Shane O'Mara the various psychological insights of Orwell and how they endure and resonate to t...
26 Jan 202437min
The Bitter Lessons of Brexit - they haven't gone away you know. Was Darwin wrong? Time for gold to shine?
'The Bitter lessons of Brexit'. We all fervently wish that Brexit has gone away. It hasn't. It's more like a slow moving chronic disease but it is sill an infection for the economy and the UK at large...
24 Jan 202429min
The return of Trump. Davos Concludes. Can we debate immigration rationally?
Trump is ahead in he polls and could be the next leader of the free world. He has promised to be a 'dictator for a day' Will it be the catastrophe that most seem to expect? Is everything he says wrong...
21 Jan 202436min
Irish GDP to shrink for 2nd year? How stupid are financial markets? Graduates join the Trump party
Latest trade data for Ireland suggest exports are struggling - for the first prolonged period in quite a while. That points to a world trade slowdown - and generalised economic weakness everywhere (ap...
17 Jan 202435min
What you believe about economic growth is probably wrong - because we know surprisingly little about. And signs of slowing growth are, well, growing.
Low or no economic growth is a bigger problem than most people realise.What we don't know about growth might surprise you.Too many country's are losing interest in growth. Not Ireland - yet. But unles...
14 Jan 202434min
