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 …

David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.

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.

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.

Dec 6, 2024 · After all, the objective of economic prosperity is to improve the day-to-day life of the citizen. That’s the name of the game. This means dramatic changes to planning and financing of homes, plus an equally significant and rapid change to planning and transport policy.

Nov 8, 2024 · Politically, the Democrats, in an alliance with a new party called the Popular Party, representing workers, farmers and the lower middle class, wanted a dollar backed by silver, meaning there would be more dollars around.

‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity’s greatest invention. Money is everything. It brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and ...

Dec 27, 2024 · Reflecting this US bias, Ireland’s corporation tax revenues surged in 2024, with receipts projected to be about €25 billion for the year. In November alone, corporate tax receipts rose by 117 per cent compared with the same month in the previous year, but that’s with the infamous Apple tax receipts hitting the account.

Aug 19, 2024 · Without jobs, the inner city shrank. Nobody wanted to live there. The inner city was a vision of urban desolation. According to a report commissioned by the Dublin Inner City Partnership: “ The deterioration of the physical environment was exacerbated by the blight caused by long-term roads proposals and by inadequate conservation policies or rehabilitation incentives.

Oct 18, 2024 · Thirty years ago, the Israeli economy was beginning to transform itself from a quasi-socialist, inward-looking, second-rate entity, traumatised by hyperinflation, into the high-tech, high finance, trading machine it is today.