Best Asia Golf Podcasts (2025)

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2025: China’s Year 42:37

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For 2,000 years, China has played a different game. While Europe fragmented, fought, and conquered outward, China focused inward, on standardisation, stability, and turning a vast empire into a single nation. In this episode, we explore why China emerged from 2025 stronger than any other power, why it has no interest in ruling the world, and why th…

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Philippine Golf with Japanese Precision at Subic International | Golfasian 4:03

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Once part of a historic U.S. Navy base, Subic Golf has been transformed into a lush rainforest course that blends Japanese precision, international hospitality, and a rare full-time caddie service. Just north of Clark, it’s redefining what golf in the Philippines can offer. Narumi, the woman behind the transformation, shares how Subic International…

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Was Genghis Khan the World’s First Globalist? 37:53

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We usually remember Genghis Khan as history’s ultimate destroyer but what if he was also its first great economic integrator? In this episode, we rethink the Mongol Empire not as pure terror, but as the largest continuous free‑trade zone the world has ever seen, stretching from Korea to Ukraine. By reopening the Silk Road after a thousand years, th…

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Can Wind Power Make Us Rich Again? 42:44

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Ireland controls seven times more sea than land, and with the Atlantic blowing 25% stronger winds than the North Sea, we sit on one of the greatest untapped energy jackpots on Earth. This episode dives into the staggering 600 gigawatt potential of offshore wind off Ireland’s coast, enough to power every home and factory in the EU, several times ove…

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Europe Under Threat: Can the Centre Hold? 46:36

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Europe is under pressure militarily, economically, and politically. NATO spending is up 45% since 2014. Germany’s exports to China have dropped 11% in a single year. France is bracing for a possible far-right presidency. Here in Ireland, neutrality suddenly feels less like a principle and more like a liability. In this episode, we ask: is Europe st…

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The Great Affordability Lie? 35:46

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Around the world, people feel poorer, even when the numbers say we’ve never been richer. In Ireland, GDP is soaring, household wealth has more than doubled since 2014, and yet most families are pinned to their collar. Why? Because the official poverty line is €33,600, but it now takes at least €52,000 a year just to stay afloat. That’s a 40% gap be…

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Petty Lines in the Sand 36:32

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We’re diving into the economics of borders, the lines we pretend are ancient but were mostly scratched into the earth by soldiers, surveyors and empire-builders with rulers. From Ukraine’s shifting frontlines to Dublin’s Herzog Park, to Northern Ireland’s uneasy edges, we trace how geography becomes politics. Then we go back to the original culprit…

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China Explained with Dan Wang 50:00

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We talk to writer and analyst Dan Wang, whose book Breakneck argues that China is an engineering state, run by people who build, while America, Ireland and the wider Anglosphere have become lawyer states, run by people who litigate. China lays highways and high-speed rail at warp speed; common-law countries file objections and environmental reports…

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Is Central Asia the Next Front Line of Global Power? with Peter Frankopan 38:53

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Leaving the US after weeks on the road, we zoom out from New York and Washington and asks a question we almost never ask in Europe: what if the real future of geopolitics isn’t in Brussels, Beijing or DC, but in Central Asia? To get there, we bring in historian Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads, to map the region we lazily call “the Stans”;…

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Why Can’t the West Build Anymore? 39:08

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Reporting from New York, with a Bitcoin slump at his heels and the Hollywood-launch buzz of Money: A Story of Humanity still in the air, we dive into one of the most important economic questions of 2025: why can America, Ireland, and Britain no longer build the infrastructure that made them great? From the riveted, soot-stained genius of the New Yo…

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Is $4,000 Gold the First Crack in the Fiat Era? 31:54

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Broadcasting from under the Hollywood sign in the middle of a rare Californian downpour, we follow the water straight into the gold. Starting with LA as a city built on pure imagination, we jump back to the original gold rushes that reshaped the map: California in 1849, the Australian fields, the Klondike, and the deep shafts of South Africa. We me…

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Hollywood, Soft Power & Ireland’s Anti-American Left? 47:55

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Reporting from West Hollywood, in a rock ’n’ roll hotel with no parties and no drugs as house rules. We take a walk down Sunset Boulevard and into the strange engine of L.A.: a city built almost entirely on imagination, storytelling and constant reinvention. From Mulholland’s aqueduct to the studios that wrote America’s myths, we asks: what does a …

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Mimosa Plus: A Unique Course in philippines with Rory Young - Golfasian 6:48

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When a former PGA pro from Scotland finds his way to Clark, Philippines, and transforms a once-forgotten military golf facility into one of the most acclaimed courses in the country, you know there’s a story worth hearing. In this episode, Golfasian visits Mimosa Plus in Clark - a course consistently ranked the best in the Philippines. With upgrade…

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Vibecession, AI Mania & The New Casino Economy with Kyla Scanlon 37:57

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Live at Kilkenomics, we welcome Roscommon's own economics star Kyla Scanlon author of In This Economy for a fast, funny, and razor-sharp tour of where money and mood collide. We get into her “vibecession” idea on why feelings beat spreadsheets, the AI splash that’s propping up markets, and why America is drifting from a work economy to a casino eco…

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The Tech Crash, The Demographic Time Bomb, and Ireland’s Future 40 39:18

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A tech bubble always feels rational until it doesn’t, as Wall Street fuses with Silicon Valley and the entire American economy becomes a single hyper-leveraged bet on AI, we trace the early tremors: falling job numbers, concentration of risk, a market propped up by story over profit. The real shock comes at home, Ireland’s new Future 40 report quie…

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The Pope’s Children at 20: How Ireland Grew Up 38:03

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Twenty years ago, The Pope’s Children changed how Ireland saw itself; a country high on credit, confidence, and Celtic Tiger ambition. Two decades later, we’re back where it all began: the suburbs, the shopping centres, the bouncy castles and breakfast rolls that built a new middle class. We revisit the characters who defined an era, Decklanders, R…

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Australia, Argentina & Ireland: A Tale of Three Economies 41:07

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Australia is the country Argentina should’ve been, and the country Ireland could become. Seventy years ago, Argentina and Australia stood side by side as the world’s great hopes, rich in land, resources, and ambition. Today, one is a model of steady prosperity, the other a warning wrapped in inflation and political theatre. We dig into how two nati…

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The Life Raft for Billionaires: Why Tech Titans Are Buying New Zealand 33:27

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As Ireland square up to the All Blacks at the weekend, we are all New Zealand this week, podcasting from the edge of the world, Richie McCaw's old stomping Christchurch, New Zealand. We explore why the world’s richest men are turning NZ's quiet and beautiful South Island into their apocalypse insurance policy. Peter Thiel has bought hundreds of acr…

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The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin 42:47

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Somewhere between a biker bar in Nimbin and a data centre in Virginia, we try to make sense of the biggest capital boom in history. The AI revolution has garnered $400 billion of spending this year alone, nearly half of all US growth. What if it’s all built on industrial lettuces, tech that expires faster than it earns? From NVIDIA’s chip race to M…

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The Lost Sailors: From Aboriginals to Schumpeter 38:37

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Deep in an Australian rainforest, surrounded by birds older than any cathedral, We unpack one of the greatest mysteries in human history, how the first people to sail across open seas, 60,000 years ago, became a civilisation that forgot how to sail. The Aboriginal Australians, the oldest continuous culture on Earth, arrived when Europe was still un…

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The Land of Opportunity Down Under: Australia 41:47

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Cycling through Brisbane in the heat, we've found a country that hasn’t had a recession in nearly half a century; a statistical miracle in modern capitalism. Australia’s economy has grown steadily since the 1980s, powered by the luck of geography and the grit of immigration. Iron ore alone earns more than €100 billion a year, and one in three resid…

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Saudi the Kingmaker: Gaza, Trump & a New Middle East with Andrew Maxwell 54:43

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Live from Christchurch, literally tomorrow, we bring on Andrew Maxwell, fresh off stage in Riyadh, to ground-truth the social shift you won’t see in think-tank PDFs: 8k-seat comedy arenas, mixed audiences, and a culture moving at startup speed. With approximately 17% of the world’s proven crude reserves, a sovereign fund near $900bn, and a populati…

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The Behavioural Budget: How Tax Shapes Us 36:44

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We promise this isn’t another boring budget breakdown! This week, we’re asking a bigger question: what if taxation isn’t really about raising money, but about changing behaviour? With Ireland awash in corporate tax revenue, the old logic of “tax to fund spending” doesn’t quite hold. So, should we start using taxes to shape how people act, from dere…

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The Art of Creation with The Edge - Part Two 42:38

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We’re back with The Edge for part two of our conversation. This time, on the creative mind itself, we talk about what connects the artist and the entrepreneur: the instinct to imagine something that doesn’t exist and make it real. From James Joyce’s Volta Cinema to U2’s Berlin reinvention, we explore how creativity and risk are two sides of the sam…

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Ep51 - End of the regular season / Finals day preview 46:46

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By Six, Over Par

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The Art of Creation with The Edge 44:17

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What is Radical Politics? 46:20

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We like to think of the centre as steady, sensible, and grounded, but what if the “centre” is actually the most radical place in politics right now? The real fault line in modern politics isn’t about tax or spending, it’s about culture. Onn those cultural questions the political class has drifted miles away from the people they claim to represent. …

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Culture Wars in the West, Alliances in the East 36:33

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While the West burns itself out on culture wars, the East is quietly stitching together something bigger. This is the age of geo-economics, where oil, factories, and sheer population size matter more than headlines. On Russia’s border, the numbers tell the story: 4.5 million Russians facing 107 million Chinese. Add India into the mix and you see th…

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Who Owns the Flag? From the American Revolution to Charlie Kirk 38:14

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We’re in New York this week, celebrating my mam’s 90th birthday and launching The History of Money in the U.S., but the backdrop is America’s deepening culture war. With the 250th anniversary of the Revolution looming, both liberals and MAGA are fighting to “own” the flag, the story, and the soul of America. We dive into Ken Burns’s new PBS series …

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The Economics of Golf 48:21

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What does golf tell us about money, power, and the way economies work? From billion-dollar sponsorship deals to the rise of LIV Golf, from Tiger Woods to Trump’s golf courses, the fairways of golf are lined with lessons about globalisation, soft power, and the business of status. In this episode, we tee off on the economics of golf, how a game that…

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Asia’s Leading Golf Tour Company: The Story of Golfasian with Mark Siegel | Golfasian 13:44

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Golfasian began as a guidebook publisher helping travelers discover courses across Asia. But when readers started asking for help booking tee times, founder Mark Siegel saw an opportunity. That simple request evolved into what is now Asia’s most trusted name in golf travel. Today, Golfasian delivers seamless golf holidays, tournaments, and custom e…

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From Cod to Culture: What Inishmore Teaches Us About the Experience Economy 36:52

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Between 250,000-300,000 tourists land on the island every year, 2,500 a day in summer, and yet it still feels authentic, alive, and deeply Irish. In this episode, we ask: how do remote places like Inishmore thrive in today’s economy, while once-wealthy regions like France’s Île de Ré struggle with emptying out? We dig into the wild history of cod a…

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Could the GAA Solve Ireland’s Housing Crisis? 34:57

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What if the solution to Ireland’s housing crisis has been sitting on our doorstep all along? We dive into the Danish model of cooperative housing, where 7% of Danes live in co-ops, and a full third of Copenhageners do too, and explore how the GAA, with its 2,200 clubs and pristine community pitches in every village, could spearhead something simila…

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Deepfakes, Big Tech, and the Coming AI Crash? 37:47

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AI investment is exploding: the “Magnificent Seven” of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and NVIDIA, are ploughing almost 7% of US GDP into AI and data centres. That’s the same scale as the US housing boom in 2006, and greater than the dot-com bubble at its peak. Today, just seven firms make up 34% of the S&P 500, the highest concentra…

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France on the Brink: Debt, Drama, and a Possible Sixth Republic 39:05

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Broadcast from Île de Ré, we dive into France’s mounting fiscal mess and political paralysis. With Macron a lame-duck, bond markets charging Paris more than Athens, and a nationwide strike looming, we ask: could Europe’s cornerstone become its weakest link? We unpack France’s towering state-and-semi-state debts, why Japan can print and Paris can’t,…

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China’s New Golf Frontier: World’s Longest Course and a Rising Star in Asia | Golfasian 6:07

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China is quietly emerging as Asia’s next golf hotspot, with Yunnan Province leading the charge. Just a short flight from Bangkok, Kunming blends dramatic landscapes, ancient culture, and pristine fairways. In this episode, Golfasian Event Manager Chris shares what makes golf in China unforgettable from iconic Spring City layouts to the record-break…

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Economics in a Tent: Live at Electric Picnic 2025 46:27

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We took economics to a music festival, and somehow packed the tent. In this Electric Picnic highlights episode from Mindfield, we rock up bleary-eyed and buzzing, then dive straight into the big stuff: what Trump’s assault on America’s institutions means for money, markets, and the rest of us. We map the new super-cycle from post-war social democra…

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Ep50 - Fifty, not out 1:22:14

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It’s the 50th episode of 6OP, and the boys are back for a bumper August episode. We cover two full months of content, as it appears we have lost the month of July 2025 from the podcasting annals (Jon claims it’s not because of the winner of the month). The 6OP team are joined by the 4 other draft captains - or at least, joined by Sam, Huw and Hocki…

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Is America The Richest Third World Country? 40:49

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Is the US drifting into Peronism? We trace the playbook, tariffs and import substitution, national champions, censorship-by-intimidation, and a war on independent institutions, and map it onto Trump’s America: sacking a Fed governor, menacing J-Powell, firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, deploying the National Guard, and the Treasury…

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Germany, 10 Years After “Wir Schaffen Das”, What Really Happened? with Katja Hoyer 36:52

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Ten years ago, Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1.1 million asylum seekers in a single year with the words “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”). Today, Germany has over 3.4 million asylum seekers, about 4% of its population, and politics, society, and culture have been transformed. In this episode, we dive into what really happene…

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The Nationalisation of the New Home Market 33:56

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The state has quietly become the biggest buyer of new homes. In fact, builders like Cairn Homes now have forward sales of nearly €946 million, much of it locked in by government deals. That means up to 80–85% of new builds are being bought by the state, at an average price of €382,000 per unit, while wages lag far behind rising house prices, which …

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Ukraine at the Crossroads: From Donetsk to the Garrison State 41:14

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After nearly 11 years of war, Putin’s maximalist demands have shrunk to a sliver of land in Donetsk, a pyrrhic victory after countless lives lost and millions displaced. But while the Kremlin clings to a symbolic scrap of territory, we explore whether Ukraine’s true future lies not in NATO membership but in becoming what political economist Harold …

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Ireland is a Hostage to Fortune 38:47

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Have we caught a case of Dutch Disease? Ireland’s dependence on foreign multinationals looks less like a golden goose and more like Japanese knotweed, invasive, overwhelming, and slowly strangling everything around it. Yes, the jobs are plentiful and the tax coffers are bulging, but the hidden costs are piling up: small businesses being elbowed out…

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America’s Dutch Disease: How Debt Became the World’s Hottest Export 40:09

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We’ve always known Dutch Disease as what happens when a country strikes oil or gas and accidentally hollows out the rest of its economy. But what if the United States’ great “resource discovery” wasn’t energy, it was debt? This week we talk to Brendan Greeley about his brilliant framework for understanding America’s political economy: the world’s i…

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How to Run Big Golf Tournaments in Asia with Cloud Nguyen | Golfasian 11:44

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When 450 golfers from nearly 30 countries gather in Thailand, precision behind the scenes makes it all possible. In this episode, former Asian Tour player Cloud Nguyen shares how he manages one of Asia’s largest amateur golf events. From airport arrivals to smooth operations across two busy weeks in Pattaya, discover what it takes to deliver a seam…

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From The Godfather to the Blockchain: How Easy Money Seduced Wall Street (and the White House) 26:46

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We’ve always said to understand the economy, you have to understand human nature, and nothing reveals that better than watching the biggest players do a Godfather-style U-turn for easy money. In this episode, we connect the dots between Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone and Jamie Dimon’s pivot from calling crypto “a fraud” to using it as loan collateral…

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Japan: Lost in Translation Part Two 41:13

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We all love a boom story, until it turns into a 40‑year hangover. In 1995, Japan’s nominal GDP hit its high‑water mark. It took until the 2020s to get back there. Debt has exploded to 250% of GDP. The population is shrinking so fast that by 2070, one in three Japanese will have vanished, down from 128 million in 2010 to just 87 million. What went w…

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Japan: From Feudal Isolation to Economic Superpower 43:12

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This week marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and we’re taking a deep dive into Japan’s extraordinary economic story. In part one of our two-part series, we explore how Japan went from a feudal, isolated society to one of the most powerful economies in the world. With our guest Russell Jones, a brilliant economist an…

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Generation Rent: How Housing Costs Are Exporting Ireland's Future 33:16

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This week we talk to Matthew Ruddy, a young Dublin entrepreneur who did everything right - built his first business at 17, worked alongside the lads at Dogpatch Labs. Except he's now living in Brisbane, not Dublin. Matthew's story captures what's happening to an entire generation. These aren't traditional emigrants heading to London building sites,…

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Did Europe Just Surrender to Trump? 32:46

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Not so fast! We unpack the surprise EU-US trade deal that has everyone shouting sellout but we see it differently. In this episode, we take a deeper look at what really went down in the Trump-triggered tariff negotiations. The headlines scream defeat: Europe folds, Trump wins, 15% tariffs slapped on all EU goods while the US gets full access to the…