David McWilliams | Economist
Sep 12, 2024 · David McWilliams is an economist, author, podcaster, journalist, documentarian and broadcaster. He hosts The David McWilliams Podcast, which aims to make economics uncomplicated and accessible, and is the founder of the world's only economics and stand-up comedy festival, "Kilkenomics" — described by the Financial Times as "simply, the best economics conference in the world."
Money - David McWilliams
In his illuminating, entertaining and often surprising book, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money – from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to coins in Ancient Greece, from mathematics in the medieval Arab world to the French Revolution, and from the emergence of the US dollar right up to today’s cryptocurrency.
I don’t think sanctions on Israel are imminent, but things can …
Just to be clear, I don’t think sanctions on Israel are imminent, but things can change quickly in times of war. The Israeli army, in pursuit of Hamas, turned Gaza to rubble. If it tries to do the same in Lebanon in pursuit of Hizbullah, many options that were once dormant become live. At the moment, Europe appears powerless, an ineffectual ...
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
Aug 30, 2024 · The problems facing the Irish economy are supply bottlenecks, labour shortages and degraded State capacity to deliver large projects. If you doubt this, consider the fact that Government spending has ballooned by 47 per cent from €71 billion to €105 billion over the last five years. How can we have spent so much money with so little to show ...
Podcast - David McWilliams
The David McWilliams Podcast LIVE - CORK. 23 Sept 2024, 20:00. Cork Opera House, Emmett Pl, Centre, Cork, T12 DW6P, Ireland. Join the gang in Cork for The David McWilliams Podcast LIVE! Tickets. Thu, 19 Sept. The Black Box Theatre. The David McWilliams Podcast LIVE - Galway. 19 Sept 2024, 19:00.
Ireland is ‘dangerously lopsided’. Galway and Limerick are …
Sep 27, 2024 · On Friday morning, again in cheerful sunlight, the liveliness at the core of Galway city evoked a different size and style. These two cities, Limerick and Galway, are essential to Ireland’s future development. The western seaboard is Ireland’s economic secret weapon and, if planned properly over next 50 years, development of the west could ...
A small town in Co Kerry and a formula for rejuvenating rural Ireland
May 21, 2024 · This week, a letter from Kenmare to the Editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has been torn out of a once-bustling town as businesses shut and footfall declines, while commercial rates rise. As more businesses close, the rates on the remaining businesses must rise in order to finance the same level of local services.
After 30 years of relative success, is Dublin city going backwards …
Aug 19, 2024 · After 30 years of relative success, are we going backwards again? The data isn’t reassuring. Dublin’s hospitality sector experienced a 2.5 per cent decline in entertainment spending at hotels, bars and restaurants during the first quarter of 2024 – the most significant contraction since the tail-end of the pandemic in 2021.
Today’s children could be worse-off than their parents - David …
Aug 12, 2024 · The Americans had their American Dream in the 1950s and 1960s, where children were likely to end up better off than their parents. These are the Boomers, much maligned by the younger and poorer Millennials and Generation X, largely because incomes are stagnating across America. For example, 90 per cent of American Boomers born around 1940 were ...
Fundamental differences over economics may damage EU-wide …
Jun 28, 2024 · In contrast to Emmanuel Macron, who more or less tells pressed French workers to get on their bike, find a better job, work harder and man up, Le Pen ’s real talent is empathy. She tells aggrieved workers that she feels their pain and will help them; precisely how is a matter of conjecture. When you look at her party’s plan, it is run through with fiscal populism.