The Other Hand

383 Episoder

1. Everyone is forecasting recession. Be careful what you wish for. UK politics make great entertainment for the outside observer but try living there.

   Publisert: 25.6.2022
2. Interest rate rises everywhere: recession next? House prices forecast to fall 20% in at least one country. Why a sovereign wealth fund would be a good idea.

   Publisert: 17.6.2022
3. Interest rates set to rise by more than expected: will they kill the housing market? Is the ECB about to make yet another big mistake? 'Boris Johnson is like a shopping trolley with a wonky wheel'.

   Publisert: 10.6.2022
4. Why does nothing work any more? Economic weather warnings raised from storm to hurricane. A Dublin restaurant experience. Gate 355: Dublin Airport's entrance to hell.

   Publisert: 3.6.2022
5. Ireland booms, UK grinds to a halt. US housing market joins Canada's and starts to slow - signs of things to come?

   Publisert: 27.5.2022
6. Rents & the housing crisis. Stock markets in a different kind of crisis: strong signal that global recession is now the big worry for investors.

   Publisert: 20.5.2022
7. Is the solution to the housing crisis both simple and obvious? Will higher interest rates burst the global and Irish housing bubbles? Dark warnings of financial stress from crypto.

   Publisert: 14.5.2022
8. They haven't gone away you know: water charges. Ireland's dystopia: incomes up, poverty down, inequality down. Truths that can never be told.

   Publisert: 11.5.2022
9. An economic storm is heading our way. Ireland is in much better shape than the UK to deal with it. But everyone will be hit.

   Publisert: 7.5.2022
10. Electric stats, carbon capture and why we need to take energy price rises on the chin. We are repeating the mistakes of the 1970s. Odd happenings in every corner of financial markets. Trouble ahead?

    Publisert: 3.5.2022
11. How much damage has social media done? What will Elon do? What should we do? Stock markets look to be in a bit of bother.

    Publisert: 26.4.2022
12. 'Aggressive' rises in interest rates on the cards. So is showering together - energy conservation is now imperative. Putin looks unwell? Some survival tactics in tough times.

    Publisert: 23.4.2022
13. Global growth forecasts slashed by IMF and World Bank. Life in Ireland isn't the dystopian nightmare many journos and politicians say it is. Shinners slip in the polls: start of a welcome trend?

    Publisert: 20.4.2022
14. 'Crisis upon crisis means the end of globalisation'. Is the dollar heading for parity against the euro? Which large country has an inflation rate of 62%. How high will US (and our) interest rates go?

    Publisert: 15.4.2022
15. Global recession on the way? Via a wage-price spiral? Criminals running the UK government? Covid corner: lab leak or not?

    Publisert: 12.4.2022
16. The Other Hand returns! Ukraine, inflation and why we should shut off Russian gas now.

    Publisert: 8.4.2022
17. Ukraine: fascists are not just in the Kremlin. Sanctions should be expanded to a total ban on Russian oil & gas. Central bankers now dealing with fundamental uncertainty, not just risk.

    Publisert: 17.3.2022
18. Ukraine: humanitarian disaster and global economic shock. Domestic energy bills to triple? Recession inevitable? Policy mistakes inevitable? Is the West as decadent as the despots think?

    Publisert: 11.3.2022
19. Ukraine: it's existential for both their way of life and ours.

    Publisert: 2.3.2022
20. Ukraine: are financial markets getting it wrong?

    Publisert: 25.2.2022