The Other Hand

By Jim Power & Chris JohnsSociety & Culture Business News

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January 24, 2025 Should the first act of Ireland's new government be an emergency budget?
Hoping for the best and not preparing for the worst
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29 min
January 22, 2025 Wanted: politicians who fill in potholes. Delivery, delivery, delivery
Where is Ireland's charismatic right-wing rabble rouser?
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30 min
January 20, 2025 Are you warming to Donald Trump?
Day 1 of the new era
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30 min
January 16, 2025 How to stop Farage from being the next UK Prime Minister
Could 2025 be the year of peak populism? The year of 'the great awakening' of normal people?

The MAGAisation of corporate America: something that is already looking like overreach and is sewing the seeds of its own destruction.

Radical delivery is now demanded: policies to make things better - at least to make things work again. Spain is giving it a go with some radical proposals to solve its housing crisis.

Do your mental health a favour: get off Twitter and Facebook
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30 min
January 14, 2025 The dark side of technology - from tech evangelist Joan Mulvihill
Akin to launching aeroplanes without safety or regulatory checks
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48 min
January 11, 2025 The age of stupid? Or will financial markets impose sanity?
Economists have sung the praises of free trade for centuries. But nobody that matters believes any longer that free trade is good. The new religion has taken us into the unknown. Or perhaps not: the known unknown is a question. What happens when really stupid people run the world?

What's the difference between Trump's threats of military force and Putin's similar remarks pre-invasion?

Free trade laid the basis for post WW2 prosperity. On average we became a lot better off. But some people did not. Free trade's dirty secret is that it creates both winners and losers. Economists have been frightened to talk about the losers, partly through a disgraceful lack of interest but also because of a key belief. Give a bad or thick politician the slightest excuse to become full-on protectionist and they will grab it with both hands. They will adopt policies that look superficially plausible but harm almost everyone. Only the plutocracy wins.

Over in the UK, things are going from bad to worse. The stark conclusion from the bond market crash: the government has run out of money. Or, at the very least, easy money. The Starmer-Reeves administration risks failure.
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33 min
January 09, 2025 Is the Musk-Trump administration trying to kill the idea of the West? Bond markets crash and German mysteries
Are all tech-titans evil?
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34 min
January 07, 2025 Can the EU survive Trump?
And all the latest data!
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31 min
December 24, 2024 Looking forward, looking backward. It's that time of year again.
How much is enough?
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41 min
December 20, 2024 Second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State? Or just disaster porn?
Irish House prices up again, Fed cuts, markets tank, UK woes.
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30 min