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The aim of this weekly podcast is to make economics easy, uncomplicated and accessible. With the world at a political, technological and financial tipping point, economics has never been so...
This week, Sinead O'Sullivan is back, and she's got an answer that official Ireland really doesn't want to hear. We dig into the "failure pr...
Ireland is now officially the worst country in Europe for young entrepreneurs. Just 5.1% of our 20-somethings are building their own busines...
The global economy runs on one thing: the US dollar. What happens when trust in that system starts to crack? In this episode, we go deep int...
Ireland is one of the richest countries in Europe, so why does it feel like it isn’t? We sit down with economist and engineer Sinead O'Sulli...
Ireland has bought itself three months of peace, but at what cost? This week, we unpack the fallout from the recent fuel protests and what t...
Ireland looks like a success story on paper: booming tax revenues, record public spending, and a global reputation as a modern, wealthy econ...
After two episodes on how Ireland’s housing market became so brittle, we get to the only question that matters: how do you actually fix it?...
In this second episode with Ronan Lyons, we wonder how did a country that once struggled to keep its people end up unable to house them? The...
Housing is the biggest expense most of us will ever face, and across Ireland and much of the Western world, the system simply isn’t working....
What does Muhammad Ali’s Rumble in the Jungle have to do with the next global recession? In this episode, we go back to the 1970s oil shocks...
What happened to the internet? Why did the platforms that once felt useful, fun and liberating become manipulative, cluttered and hostile? I...
South Africa is one of the places where the 21st century is being made in real time. Against the backdrop of war in the Middle East, we ask...
Broadcasting from South Africa, a country of huge energy, huge potential, and brutally high unemployment, we use that lens to ask what actua...
In this episode, we unpack the new China shock, as exports to Europe surge nearly 30% in just two months and a €359 billion trade deficit ke...
On St. Patrick’s Day, we go beyond the parades and pints to ask: what does the Irish diaspora actually mean for Ireland today? From the Pres...
What happens to the global economy when a war erupts at the world’s most important energy choke point? In this episode, we trace the economi...
In part two of our history of Iran and the Middle East, we move from the 1979 Iranian Revolution to the bombing of Tehran today. This is the...
Iran didn’t suddenly become the geopolitical flashpoint it is today, the roots go back decades. In this first part of a two-part series, we...
In this episode, we ask what happens when economic evolution moves from human speed to machine speed. Fresh from an off-the-record discussio...
Broadcast from Serbia, this episode dives into the Balkans, the most misunderstood, most underestimated corner of Europe, and one with the b...
This episode begins at the ancient seven-arch bridge in Killaloe, the crossing point where Clare, Tipp and Limerick collide, and jumps to Vi...
For forty years, the software engineer was the hero of the modern economy. That era may now be ending, fast. In this episode, we argue that...
Credit is the lifeblood of a modern economy. When it expands, ideas turn into companies, small builders become employers, and innovation com...
If central banks “control money,” why do we still get credit booms, banking crises, and bubbles, and what can a new Fed chair actually do ab...
Not even “thermodynamically sound energy through time and space” makes Bitcoin money. In this episode, we take another hammer to the sacred...
We think the biggest cultural shift of the last 15 years is inflation, immigration, or housing. It isn’t. It’s singledom, a shockwave moving...
In a world where “might is right” is having an ugly little renaissance, Rutger Bregman returns as the perfect antidote: a stubborn, data-bac...
Ireland has spent the last two decades riding a unique position: European by treaty, American by economics, a “bridgehead” for US multinatio...
Everyone watched Trump at Davos and thought they were seeing American power. We think they were seeing something else: a flashing warning li...
This episode is a deep dive into a simple claim: This is the year the mask slipped. The United States has decided that the grand bargain it...
Donald Trump is taking aim at the most powerful, and most opaque, institution in the global economy: the Federal Reserve. By moving to oust...
America and Europe are drifting apart, not just politically, but philosophically. In this episode, we dig into the consequences of that spli...
In a single week, Donald Trump goes after the Federal Reserve, criminalises Jerome Powell, and shakes the idea of central bank independence,...
Washington moved on Venezuela, and the shockwaves are racing across the Americas. Oil, refugees, collapsed regimes, back-room deals: this ma...
Broadcasting from the streets of Medellín, we dive into Latin America’s reaction to the stunning removal of Nicolás Maduro, and the strange...
It’s 2026, and Ireland is skating on a thin economic edge. With the US retreating from Europe, American industry is stalling here, no new la...
Venezuela once rivalled Switzerland in wealth, today it’s produced more refugees than Syria. What happened? We go straight to Buenos Aires t...
For 2,000 years, China has played a different game. While Europe fragmented, fought, and conquered outward, China focused inward, on standar...
We usually remember Genghis Khan as history’s ultimate destroyer but what if he was also its first great economic integrator? In this episod...
Ireland controls seven times more sea than land, and with the Atlantic blowing 25% stronger winds than the North Sea, we sit on one of the g...
Europe is under pressure militarily, economically, and politically. NATO spending is up 45% since 2014. Germany’s exports to China have drop...
Around the world, people feel poorer, even when the numbers say we’ve never been richer. In Ireland, GDP is soaring, household wealth has mo...
We’re diving into the economics of borders, the lines we pretend are ancient but were mostly scratched into the earth by soldiers, surveyors...
We talk to writer and analyst Dan Wang, whose book Breakneck argues that China is an engineering state, run by people who build, while Ameri...
Leaving the US after weeks on the road, we zoom out from New York and Washington and asks a question we almost never ask in Europe: what if...
Reporting from New York, with a Bitcoin slump at his heels and the Hollywood-launch buzz of Money: A Story of Humanity still in the air, we...
Broadcasting from under the Hollywood sign in the middle of a rare Californian downpour, we follow the water straight into the gold. Startin...
Reporting from West Hollywood, in a rock ’n’ roll hotel with no parties and no drugs as house rules. We take a walk down Sunset Boulevard an...
Live at Kilkenomics, we welcome Roscommon's own economics star Kyla Scanlon author of In This Economy for a fast, funny, and razor-sharp tou...
A tech bubble always feels rational until it doesn’t, as Wall Street fuses with Silicon Valley and the entire American economy becomes a sin...