The Other Hand

Rents & the housing crisis. Stock markets in a different kind of crisis: strong signal that global recession is now the big worry for investors.

Is the solution to the housing crisis both simple and obvious? Will higher interest rates burst the global and Irish housing bubbles? Dark warnings of financial stress from crypto.

They haven't gone away you know: water charges. Ireland's dystopia: incomes up, poverty down, inequality down. Truths that can never be told.

An economic storm is heading our way. Ireland is in much better shape than the UK to deal with it. But everyone will be hit.

Electric stats, carbon capture and why we need to take energy price rises on the chin. We are repeating the mistakes of the 1970s. Odd happenings in every corner of financial markets. Trouble ahead?

How much damage has social media done? What will Elon do? What should we do? Stock markets look to be in a bit of bother.

'Aggressive' rises in interest rates on the cards. So is showering together - energy conservation is now imperative. Putin looks unwell? Some survival tactics in tough times.

Global growth forecasts slashed by IMF and World Bank. Life in Ireland isn't the dystopian nightmare many journos and politicians say it is. Shinners slip in the polls: start of a welcome trend?

'Crisis upon crisis means the end of globalisation'. Is the dollar heading for parity against the euro? Which large country has an inflation rate of 62%. How high will US (and our) interest rates go?

Global recession on the way? Via a wage-price spiral? Criminals running the UK government? Covid corner: lab leak or not?

The Other Hand returns! Ukraine, inflation and why we should shut off Russian gas now.

EXCHEQUER FINANCES STRONG, BUT COST OF BORROWING RISING