The Nationalisation of the New Home Market
The state has quietly become the biggest buyer of new homes. In fact, builders like Cairn Homes now have forward sales of nearly €946 million, much of it locked in by government deals. That means up t...
26 Aug 202533min
Ukraine at the Crossroads: From Donetsk to the Garrison State
After nearly 11 years of war, Putin’s maximalist demands have shrunk to a sliver of land in Donetsk, a pyrrhic victory after countless lives lost and millions displaced. But while the Kremlin clings t...
21 Aug 202541min
Ireland is a Hostage to Fortune
Have we caught a case of Dutch Disease? Ireland’s dependence on foreign multinationals looks less like a golden goose and more like Japanese knotweed, invasive, overwhelming, and slowly strangling eve...
19 Aug 202538min
America’s Dutch Disease: How Debt Became the World’s Hottest Export
We’ve always known Dutch Disease as what happens when a country strikes oil or gas and accidentally hollows out the rest of its economy. But what if the United States’ great “resource discovery” wasn’...
14 Aug 202540min
From The Godfather to the Blockchain: How Easy Money Seduced Wall Street (and the White House)
We’ve always said to understand the economy, you have to understand human nature, and nothing reveals that better than watching the biggest players do a Godfather-style U-turn for easy money. In this ...
12 Aug 202526min
Japan: Lost in Translation Part Two
We all love a boom story, until it turns into a 40‑year hangover. In 1995, Japan’s nominal GDP hit its high‑water mark. It took until the 2020s to get back there. Debt has exploded to 250% of GDP. The...
7 Aug 202541min
Japan: From Feudal Isolation to Economic Superpower
This week marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and we’re taking a deep dive into Japan’s extraordinary economic story. In part one of our two-part series, we explore how...
5 Aug 202543min
Generation Rent: How Housing Costs Are Exporting Ireland's Future
This week we talk to Matthew Ruddy, a young Dublin entrepreneur who did everything right - built his first business at 17, worked alongside the lads at Dogpatch Labs. Except he's now living in Brisban...
31 Jul 202533min
