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The Other Hand

Jim Power & Chris Johnscjpeconomics.substack.com

Economics and finance demystified.


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"I first heard about ChatGPT on your podcast and immediately started using it. I’m 73 and wrote my first program at 16. Having witnessed all developments in computing down the years I think this is the greatest since www. Your pod is informative in many different areas, politics, economics, society changes, housing crisis etc but at times goes beyond that. This episode tying up all this but also the implications of AI with a knowledgeable guest. ENTHRALLING! Keep it coming."



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Episodes

In conversation with Dan Davies, author of "The Unaccountability Machine"

From Brad de Long's review of the book: Understanding how to make our systems more accountable and more human may not be the key to our survival, but it is certainly the key to our happiness and prosperity. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 05, 202555 min

The West is over. Get over it.

The EU must transform itself or die Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 02, 202531 min

The US gives Europe the finger

Trump aligns with Moscow Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 16, 202534 min

Are you warming to Donald Trump?

Day 1 of the new era Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 20, 202530 min

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 Become a member at https://...

Jan 16, 202530 min

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 no...

Jan 11, 202533 min

Can the EU survive Trump?

And all the latest data! Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 07, 202530 min

Musk is winning in Washington, Farage is winning in the UK

The UK's Labour government has already had to 'reset' it's goals. Nigel Farage is the big winner from Keir Starmer's incompetence. In the US, it looks increasingly like Elon Musk has Trump's ear. For now, at least Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Dec 16, 202437 min

A surprising haven of stability: Ireland has something new to offer the world

France and Germany join the list of countries offering nothing but political chaos. Farage wants the UK to be in that club very soon. Guess which country has bought itself another 5 years of peace and all of the economic & business attractions that go with it. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Dec 08, 202428 min

Well done Ireland: a strong mandate for continuity centrism.

We take a look at the results of GE 24 and disagree about several things. More such disagreements are very likely. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Dec 03, 202432 min

Not another Eurozone debt crisis?

Are we in the foothills of another Euro area crisis? Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 28, 202428 min

Fine Gael mess up yet another election campaign

Sarah Carey joins us to discuss an election campaign that has finally caught fire. But not in the way that Fine Gael would like When will they realise the civil war is over? Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 25, 202435 min

Election special! With renowned political commentator Tull McAdoo

Well-known political analyst, commentator and occasional comedian, Tull McAdoo, joins Chris to talk about the General Election. Will Ireland join the rest of the world and sweep out the incumbent government? Or is the economy doing so well that incumbency is actually a positive? We may have to wait until Easter for a government Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 24, 202434 min

Irish house prices and jobs are still booming.

Irish employment is still growing - at another all-time high. Not unrelatedly, house prices are also booming. UK farmers are protesting about inheritance taxation. What are the issues and do they have wider resonance? Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-other-hand-with-jim.power-and-chris.johns . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 21, 202431 min

Budget 2025 meets Project 2025. Nobody seems to have noticed.

Budget 2025 has been derailed by Project 2025 - the radical agenda denied by Trump during his campaign (it really is so extreme even he had to disavow it). Notwithstanding the denials, Project 2025 is now being implemented. But few Irish or European politicians seem to have noticed. Latest EU Commission economic forecasts are pretty dire. The US is leaving the EU for dust. And a new gap has emerged: the EU North versus the Eu South Will the EU ever be an economically dynamic region again? Has th...

Nov 18, 202431 min

What can you do if the electorate will bear anything but the truth?

Trump is impossible to forecast - so should we stop trying? Is talking about him merely enabling him? Colluding with him? There is a spiders-web of connections between Trump and Brexit. Farage, Le Pen and Orban have a new spring in their step. Brexiteers still hanker after a free trade deal with the US. They must confront the reality of a protectionist US President - and government. One way Trump could make mischief would be to implement his global tariffs but offer the UK an exemption. The Brit...

Nov 16, 202446 min

The Trump effect on markets and the global economy. Somebody is getting it very wrong. Who?

The list of reasons why Trump won is getting longer. Some make sense, some do not. We look at the evidence-based ones. One very stark conclusion: not every Trump voter thinks all that positively about the President-elect. It's simply that they find the Democratic Party even more repulsive. The Trump trade is on. The stock market loves the prospect of trade wars, budget-busting tax cuts and mass deportations. Something doesn't add up. Incumbent governments everywhere are having a very hard time. ...

Nov 12, 202434 min