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."
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 ...
About - David McWilliams
David McWilliams is an economist, author, podcaster, journalist, documentarian and broadcaster. He 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”. He also co-founded the Dalkey Book Festival, Ireland’s largest literary and ideas festival.
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.
Podcast - David McWilliams
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 important to all of us and yet, it’s made inaccessible and complicated by so many. I’ve always thought what is complicated is rarely important and what is important is rarely complicated.
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 ...
Here’s an ‘epic’ idea to unlock Cork’s potential
From an exclusively economic perspective, Cork has lots going for it. The latest figures show that the jurisdiction’s second-largest and fastest-growing city has a population of 210,000, rising to 305,000 in the broader metro area. The county contributes 19 per cent of national gross domestic product and has the fourth-highest disposable income per capita in the country.
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 ...
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 ...
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.