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. That will be our motto. Every week we are going to tease out some big economic or political issue facing us, not just ...
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David McWilliams Podcasts
A weekly look at the world of business and personal finance with Richard Curran. Listen live Saturday at 10am on RTÉ Radio 1.
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Find the latest interviews with leading economists from industry, academia and policy on the Society of Professional Economists podcast.
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The "Winging It" podcast is an engaging audio series hosted by seasoned experts from The Blue Owl Group. Everyone's got a story about "winging it" - those uncharted, universal moments we all face – when there’s no playbook, no mentor on speed dial, just your instincts and sheer determination to guide you. On Winging It, we’ll talk to top policymakers, civil society leaders, and tech trailblazers who've been there — and lived to tell the tale. At a time when technology, global democracies, an ...
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'What Matters' is back for season two! This MA Financial podcast series offers listeners unique access to our experts and their insights – across alternative investments, lending and corporate advisory – to help keep you informed. Subscribe and follow the podcast today! This information in this podcast series is being made available for MA Financial Group Limited (ACN 142 008 428) and its related bodies corporate (“MA Financial”) for informational purposes only and reflects the views of its ...
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3VB Speaks is the regular podcast series from London barristers' chambers 3 Verulam Buildings. Each episode features members of chambers discussing cases and issues in their specialist practice area.
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Water and wastewater technology vendors have historically struggled to market themselves effectively. Hosts Jim Lauria and Adam Tank interview the industry’s leading communicators who share their secrets and help demystify the art of industrial storytelling to build better brands, engage more customers, and grow sales.
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Three yo-yos from the 2020s watch selected episodes of one of the greatest TV shows of the 1980s, “Magnum, p.i.” There are a lot of segments. E-mail [email protected] to suggest episodes or insult other listeners.
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The Imagining the Past podcast series is brought to you by the Historical Novel Society Australasia. We feature authors appearing at our biennial conferences or have been recognised in our $150,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Our HNSA hosts, Greg Johnston and Kelly Gardiner, discuss researching, writing and publishing historical fiction with acclaimed writers of the genre in its many forms from crime to fantasy to literary fiction, set in eras stretching from ancient times to the Swinging Si ...
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The Pope’s Children at 20: How Ireland Grew Up
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38:03Twenty 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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An Ending in Sight or the New Normal? The Cost of Living Crisis with David McWilliams
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8:55This week there was more bleak news for consumers as it was announced that car insurance premiums are set to rise. For the average consumer, it feels like prices are rising everywhere we look. David McWilliams, Economist and founder of Kilkenomics, joins Adrian to discuss whether this cost of living crisis will end, or if its the new normal.…
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What Matters - The Next Super-Cycle: Economist David McWilliams on Money and Markets
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47:56Economist, author and broadcaster David McWilliams joins Andrew Pridham for a fascinating look at what he calls the next global super-cycle — a world of rising tariffs, managed trade and an AI-fuelled boom — and how Australia can thrive in this new era. In a lively, entertaining and thought-provoking conversation, David taps into his unique ability…
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In this episode of *Winging It*, Blue Owl Group’s Colin Crowell chats with Tim Wu — author, law professor, and former White House adviser—to discuss his new book, "The Age of Extraction." Together they trace the arc from the early optimism of the open Internet to today’s data-driven economy, where human attention, personal information, and even tru…
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Australia, Argentina & Ireland: A Tale of Three Economies
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41:07Australia 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 Arklow Man with an Iron Grip on Steel Business
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18:22James Kelly joins Adrian to share his journey of how he rose from an apprentice in LMH Engineering to becoming its managing director, and all the people who inspired him along the way.By RTÉ Radio 1
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In the recent Presidential Election, the issue of Deepfake videos and how realistic they can actually be became very clear. Wired Magazine's David Gilbert joins Adrian to discuss whether we are reaching a point where we soon won't be able to believe our eyes.By RTÉ Radio 1
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From Royal to Regular: The Cost of Losing a Title
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4:41One of the biggest stories this week is the ultimate fall from grace for Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Today, The Guardian reported that Andrew will receive a six figure sum and an annual stipend from his brother King Charles. Enda Brady, TRT World Presenter, discusses the financial implications of losing a title.…
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Better known as the creator of Dracula, Siofra Mulqueen has been sinking her teeth into the story of Bram Stoker's business interests.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Capturing the Northern Lights with Adam Rory Porter
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2:42As the nights close in and the winter descends, Donegal photographer Adam Rory Porter gives a snapshot of what it is like following the aurora borealis.By RTÉ Radio 1
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The Life Raft for Billionaires: Why Tech Titans Are Buying New Zealand
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33:27As 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
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42:47Somewhere 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
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38:37Deep 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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David LaFrance: The Language of Water Finance & AWWA
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24:23David LaFrance is the president of the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He's spent decades in the water industry as a utility leader (former CFO of Denver Water) and shares compelling ways to tell water's story.By Jim Lauria and Adam Tank
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The Land of Opportunity Down Under: Australia
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41:47Cycling 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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S10 Ep8: Imagining the Past—2025—Jane Harrison
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38:41Greg Johnston chats with Jane Harrison about her novel, The Visitors, and its long and winding road to being long-listed for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize.By Imagining The Past
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As Michael D. Higgins and Sabina prepare to return home as the race to elect the next President of Ireland enters its final week, Dave McArdle reports on whether a house that comes with a job can ever become a real home.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Justin Urquhart Stewart, international financial and investment commentator, joins Richard to discuss concerns over the health of regional banks in the United States, following Donald Trump's suggestion yesterday that heightened tariffs on Chinese imports may not last.By RTÉ Radio 1
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The Changes That Have Come Over Me with David Walsh
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26:49David Walsh first joined us on the show nearly ten years ago, when he was scaling his security enterprise Netwatch in the States. Today, he rejoins Richard to discuss the process of building up his second company Halo Care and the lost of his wife Beatrice Pembroke Walsh. https://www.idonate.ie/forms/BeatricePembrokeWalshFoundation…
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This week, an article in The Telegraph described how industry Chief Executives were shocked when they visited factories almost entirely staffed by robots in China. Managing Director of Kuka Robotics Ireland Brian Cooney joins Richard to discuss China's advances in robotics and whether the West, and indeed Ireland, are keeping up.…
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While Artificial Intelligence continues to replace human workers, Fiona Looney wonders if there are certain jobs that only an Irish person can do that are beyond even AI's capability.By RTÉ Radio 1
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