Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had serious consequences across the world, sparking food shortages, energy crises and inflation that have destabilised economies. However, Ukraine’s success in resisting that invasion have... Read More
All the polls and conventional wisdom suggest Sinn Féin will form the next Government in Ireland but not “themselves alone”. Who will form the inevitable coalition and what economic policies... Read More
What are the emerging themes and threads that will define the coming era of finance, geo-politics and economics across the globe? Our panel looks at the known knowns, the... Read More
Nearly 100 years ago, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock was staged in Dublin with the immortal line from Captain Boyle: “The whole world is in a state of chassis”.... Read More
Ireland has been hugely successful at attracting foreign direct investment, particularly from the US, as its companies seek an English-speaking foothold in EU markets. But what about our own indigenous... Read More
After a disastrous year, cryptocurrencies have faced much criticism as being a Ponzi scheme and a pump and dump scam, but what is the bigger picture? What is the future... Read More
Heading towards chaos or about to reach its potential, what way is this giant, often forgotten continent heading? Join four economists from the region as they explain to us what... Read More
In his book Edible Economics, Ha-Joon makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world. He uses histories behind familiar food items... Read More
The aim of David’s podcast, much like Kilkenomics itself, is to make economics easy, uncomplicated and accessible. With the world at a political, technological and financial tipping point, economics has... Read More
Social, regional and educationally divided, what about the economic plan? Is there any? Now that there’s a new Prime Minister and a new King, what are the real opportunities for... Read More
We live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity – from living our ‘best life’ to eating artisan food – matters more and more to us, but where the... Read More
The two most influential and consequential economists of the 20th century find themselves part of the global battle of ideas in the 21st century. In the teeth of the... Read More
Why is Red Bull so popular – even though everyone hates the taste? Why do countdown boards on platforms take away the pain of train delays? And why do we... Read More
Economist, former Greek Finance Minister and Kilkenomics repeat offender, Yanis is a member of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens and secretary general of MeRA25, the left wing political party he... Read More
Paul McCulley is a former Managing Director at PIMCO and a legend of the industry, having helped coin phrases such as “shadow banking” and the “Minsky moment.” A Kilkenomics favourite,... Read More
Can we afford it? Can we afford not to? Northern Ireland costs the UK Exchequer more than €10 billion a year, has a huge public sector and has much lower... Read More
It’s Groundhog Day again…or is it? The rental sector in Ireland has collapsed to a level where houses to let, in Dublin in particular, regularly have queues of hundreds of... Read More
Vladimir Putin’s imperialistic invasion of Ukraine and its devastating human and economic costs there have also triggered far reaching economic consequences for Russia, Europe and the rest of the world.... Read More
Surfing on the beaches of St. Barts in the morning, investing in luxury real estate in the afternoon and economic commentary for Bloomberg in the evening, founder of Eclectica Asset... Read More
Putin’s soldiers are getting their arses handed to them in Ukraine. Trump’s fortunes are flagging, even the inauguration of President Xi seems like the end not the beginning. Boris is... Read More
There was a time when globalisation seemed the only game in town and the inevitable endgame of all global economics. But strongman economics, trade wars, nativist governments, geo-political turmoil and... Read More
Ireland went from being a poor country to being a rich one in a generation, how? Are we just a tax haven on the make? Voices on the Left and... Read More
“In the opening pages of Calypso in Ulysses, we see a fertile economic imagination at work. Once outside his Eccles Street home, at 8am on June 16 1904, Bloom’s first... Read More
A decade marred not just by flared trousers, bad haircuts and dodgy orchestral rock, but also by mass unemployment, soaring inflation, an energy crisis and the end of the Keynesian... Read More
Far from being the problem of our time, Tom Frank the brilliant award-winning American commentator and journalist, insists that populism is the cure for most of our ills. Historically, Populism... Read More
A friend of Kilkenomics, Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Taleb... Read More
Westminster and Whitehall are swarming with old Oxonians. They’ve attended the same balls and black tie dinners. Eleven of the 15 postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford, including his... Read More
How did Germany end up hostage to Russia? is this the greatest strategic blunder since Operation Barbarossa and what does it mean for the much vaunted German industrial miracle. Or... Read More
Ezra Pound declared that 1922 was the year the modern world began, meaning it was the year the 20th century really began. Could 2022 be seen as the year the... Read More
This is the winter of our discontent. Can we make it to St Patrick’s Day? Energy bills are set to double at least, energy supplies are uncertain, energy companies on... Read More
100 years ago, in 1922, Ireland became an independent state and the Soviet Union was founded. Two very contrasting events, both facing the common challenge of establishing and funding a... Read More
Remember all the crypto, tech-bro talk about the end of the dollar ? The Green -back was finished , destroyed by its own creator the Fed that was printing it... Read More
The essential question in all development economics. Why are some countries rich and others poor? Can countries catch up or not? And once prosperous, can a country slip back and... Read More
Climate change is, at its core, the most monumental failure of economics. The world is being destroyed because the market can’t put a price on the planet. So what is... Read More
How have the traditional media of newspapers and broadcasters adapted to the Internet Age? The answer is mixed. Facebook, Twitter and Google are just some of the behemoths who have... Read More
Inflation is raging, yet interest rates are miles behind price increases. Currencies, the euro and sterling are faltering, the dollar ascendent. Markets are hoping the central banks have got their... Read More
Did you know that the NHS spends more on Viagra than helping single mother families eat healthily or that there are more blokes called Dave running the UK’s top... Read More
Russia’s world standing under dictator Vladimir Putin has perhaps never been lower than now, in the midst of its unprovoked invasion of a fellow sovereign European state, war crimes and nuclear blackmail.... Read More
Since 1980 China has been the really big global economic story. Everything else pales in comparison. Our lives have been altered profoundly by China, but what about their lives? What... Read More
Now that the Queen is Dead, what’s keeping the UK together? The great English Nationalist project has finally delivered an exit from the EU. What are the unintended consequences of... Read More
Twenty years ago, the USA stood imperious, the world’s only superpower, the master of the markets, the victor. Today it stands at a crossroads awaiting the results of the imminent... Read More
All you need to know about financial markets in 2023 in this session. With so many asset classes in a state of flux, interest rates on the rise and inflation... Read More
This month the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, which is clouded in controversy. Who paid who, how far does the money trail go and what does the Qatar tell... Read More
Europe’s – particularly Germany’s – economic model was based on cheap Russian gas. Now that’s gone. What’s next? Having remained united in the face of the Brexit deal and Russia’s... Read More
Paul Howard’s legendary satirical character makes his debut at Kilkenomics with a SoCoDu analysis of the Irish housing market, the strange economics of culchies, how to get by on, like,... Read More
Beachhut PR CEO Paul Hayes sees more value in learning from failure than marvelling at the success of others, and this is where he came up with the idea for... Read More
Jargon Busting is Kilkenomics in a nutshell – making economics accessible, understandable and cutting through the bullshit! It’s always been one of our fastest-selling shows with its mix of... Read More
Consistently the fastest-selling shows at Kilkenomics, our Sunday brunch returns with world-class panelists and razor-sharp comedians divining the entrails of the newspapers and ruminating on the events of the weekend.... Read More
Consistently the fastest-selling shows at Kilkenomics, our Sunday brunch returns with world-class panelists and razor-sharp comedians divining the entrails of the newspapers and ruminating on the events of the weekend.... Read More
Economic analysis will only improve when women are better represented in economics, a discipline that incorporates history, politics, philosophy and science. Its methodologies are mostly mathematical, without a grasp of... Read More
Ask anyone in any business and they’ll tell you they can’t get staff. Where have all the people gone? Unemployment has never been lower, the number of people in work... Read More
After all the doom and gloom of the events of the weekend; after all the economists referring to one hand and then the other; after all the sighs of despair... Read More
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