Best Davidmcwilliams Podcasts (2025)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Lost Sailors: From Aboriginals to Schumpeter 38:37

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The Land of Opportunity Down Under: Australia 41:47

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

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The Behavioural Budget: How Tax Shapes Us 36:44

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

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

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

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The Economics of Golf 48:21

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

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

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

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

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

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Is America The Richest Third World Country? 40:49

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