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Truthiness, populism and stochastic parrots. Think you know how your brain works? Neuroscientist Professor Shane O'Mara takes us through the exciting and fascinating developments in how we think.
2023-08-14
Why not spend the €65bn on social housing? Should we rescue people from their financial folly? Biden builds on Trump's policies.
2023-08-12
Ireland and the BBC. Banks deserve everything they are about to get. China deflates?
2023-08-09
Mortgage rates and savings rates: banks go for the better PR. Are their mega profits sustainable?
2023-08-05
Turbulence over Dublin Airport. EV sales take off but might lose power.
2023-08-02
A much bigger story than RTE goes unreported. Lots of economic data confuses more than it clarifies
2023-07-30
Big week for interest rates, but is the peak getting further away with recent rises in commodity prices? Global economic data is painting a very mixed picture.
2023-07-26
Is Putin trying to get your mortgage rate up? Food prices under threat again. China is caught between a rock and a hard place.
2023-07-23
Ireland booms or just avoids recession? Falling exports - technical or threat to growth and public finances?
2023-07-20
Has Ryan Tubridy done the nation a great service? If inflation is coming back down all on its own, why raise interest rates? The UK is literally getting sick.
2023-07-17
If central bankers get their way, your house price could fall - perhaps by a lot. The many mysteries of modern economics.
2023-07-07
Ireland's embarrassment of riches? Tax revenues explode in the first half of 2023. What to do with them?
2023-07-05
RTE, celebrity pay and hopeless governance. Bidenomics: some surprising consequences. The usual suspects tell McGrath not to cut taxes. He will ignore them. .
2023-07-02
Interest rates start to bite. House prices, obviously, but also in some unexpected places. UK water companies just one example - plenty of others.
2023-06-30
Seven years on from the Brexit referendum. Still as controversial as ever, despite the evidence saying there is no controversy. Dealing with complexity in a world that excludes experts.
2023-06-28
The UK: in a deep hole and still digging. The riskiness of the mortgage. Brexit: Good for Ireland?
2023-06-24
Fretting over Irish inflation completely misses the point of the Euro? Things could be worse: UK has much lower trend growth, much higher core inflation - stagflation nation.
2023-06-22
Chat GPT skills now needed for entry level finance jobs. Extraordinary times for a few US companies. Gas prices spike - hopefully only for a short while
2023-06-17
Ukraine floods, Putin waits for Trump. Broken windows policing - why we are paying the price for Obama's inaction.
2023-06-11
Is the housing crisis solvable? How much is it to do with a population that has nearly doubled? Will S. County Dublin have to be told to add an extra three stories?
2023-06-08
