When the West Woke Up: How Yugoslavia Fell Apart
This week, we take you back to the final years of Yugoslavia, a country that exploded into one of the bloodiest wars Europe has seen since WWII. We tr...
Why Ireland Must Rethink Its Economic Future; Fast
In this week’s episode, we dive headfirst into the economic storm clouds gathering over Ireland, and the urgent need to act before we get soaked. We e...
The Ghosts of Yugoslavia: Borders, Bankers & Balkan Ghosts
In this episode, we dive headfirst into one of Europe’s most brutal and under-discussed chapters: the collapse of Yugoslavia. Live from Croatia, where...
Can We Cope With This Level of Immigration?
This week on the podcast, we take on the two biggest issues shaping our future: immigration and housing. We begin with the looming threat of U.S. tari...
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Economics of Immortality, Tech Bros & Tír na nÓg
This week, we start with Oasis and end in Silicon Valley, via Tír na nÓg. We’re talking about the economics of not dying, and how tech billionaires ar...
Trieste and the City of the Future
Trieste is a city that’s belonged to everyone, and no one. This week, we go walking through a place that’s been Austrian, Italian, Yugoslav, and, at o...
Who Killed the Living City?
After travelling through Montreal, Bilbao, and Vilnius, cities alive with colour, sound, and soul, I returned home and felt the contrast sharply. Dubl...
Content, Culture & the Bottom Line: How Finance is Killing the Avant-Garde
Are we living through the death of innovation? We’re back in HQ asking a tough question: has culture stagnated, and if so, is economics to blame? We e...
Has the Balance of Global Power Just Shifted to Israel?
Has Israel just become the undisputed power in the Middle East? After a lightning-fast 12-day conflict, oil prices fell instead of spiking, Iran backe...
The Dollar, the Ape & the End of an Empire
Live from a packed GAA hall at the Dalkey Book Festival, this episode tackles one of the wildest questions in economics: how did humans, flimsy, anxio...