The Other Hand
Jim Power & Chris Johns
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Dec 2, 2021 • 39min
Boom! Tax revenues up strongly again. Is the stage set for giveaway budgets? Where do conspiracy theorists get their beliefs? Transitory inflation is no more: it's just inflation.
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Nov 30, 2021 • 37min
Brexit and the end of the UK land-bridge? COVID: Omicron policy response becomes Moronic. What drives anti-vaxxers?
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Nov 25, 2021 • 39min
Stagflation with no sign of the stag. Economic growth resurges, at least in the US - perhaps to remarkable levels. Dollar strength no deterrent to weekend shopping trips to NYC.
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Nov 22, 2021 • 42min
Housing & vultures. Covid restrictions & revolts. Marijuana - there's an app for that.
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Nov 16, 2021 • 33min
Panto season starts early: Covid, unlike Cinderella, only comes out at midnight. Apparently. Out and about in Dublin. If the game is truly rigged which way to go: extreme right or left?
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Nov 13, 2021 • 36min
Forecasts for the economy double. Inflation also up a lot. Does debt matter? Shinners in government - mind your pension.
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Nov 10, 2021 • 38min
One year on from the first vaccine. Stock markets signalling all is now fine: rational markets or just another bubble? Why is there no ambition for Dublin?
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Nov 6, 2021 • 30min
Bank of England stumbles and sterling falls. The tax boom is getting boomier.
The bank of England all but promised an interest rate rise this week but then failed to deliver. What is going on?US jobs are growing again but US interest rates are not. For how long? Stock markets love the mix of decent growth and a docile central bank.Latest data suggest no let up in surging Irish tax revenues. November will be the big corporation tax month. Ireland and UK covid rates have recently crossed. But there is better news from big pharma: anti-virals are almost as big as the news about vaccines we got last year. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cjpeconomics.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 3, 2021 • 38min
Global inflation and supply chain problems are getting worse. Are higher interest rates the answer? Does COP26 need a touch of CBT?
Interest rate rises around the world now seem to be just a mater of time. How fixed is your mortgage?When environmental campaigners tell us ‘we are all doomed’ how do we react? Is this kind of messaging the way most likely to get us to make the necessary changes to or behaviour? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cjpeconomics.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 30, 2021 • 40min
Mafia-style elites govern us all. But are they making a mistake?
For centuries, the ways in which many societies governed themselves were indistinguishable from mafia-type governance structures. Along came democracy, the rule of law and meritocracy. But how much has really changed? Have we just changed one set of feudal barons for another, albeit with a slightly thicker veneer of civilisation? As philosopher Michael Sandel says, meritocracy is a scam.Prominent economist Jeffrey Sachs recently asserted that America is ruled by and for a small elite - and always has been, apart from an aberrant period from the mid 1930s to the mid 1960s. Surely that’s also true of the UK (with only a much shorter ‘golden period’) and many other countries? Is Sachs right? If so, what does that suggest for what happens next?‘Winner takes all’ may be how the world has always been organised. But the sustainability of that model depends critically on the winners leaving enough on the table to keep the masses quiet. Are today’s elites making the classic mistake? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cjpeconomics.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
