{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/633b3ddf2ce407001121c7e5/668ae21e453c109b961a4d30?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Has Liz Truss done the world a big favour? Reflections on the UK General election ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/633b3ddf2ce407001121c7e5/1720377764076-9cc3306083f69f005a1cd2e514cbb865.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The Irish finance minister is drowning in cash. Booming tax revenues the clearest indicator - much better than GDP - that the economy remains robust.</p><p><br></p><p>Politics over economics: Charlie McCreevy once said when finance minister, \"If I have it, I'll spend it'. It's not what the budgetary watchdog or the central bank would endorse - quite the opposite of course. But if its bad economics, is it good politics? If so, the upcoming budget is going to be something else.</p><p><br></p><p>Will that budget be quickly followed by an election?</p><p><br></p><p>The UK, of course, has just had its own election. We discuss the many and varied takeaways. Chris suggests that the UK electing a centrist government after 14 chaotic and crazy years is cause for celebration and could just change the economic narrative, whatever the political fallout. Maybe Liz Truss did us all a favour and has given a salutary lesson to those who would flirt with batshit crazy populism. Maybe even in Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Joe Biden and the Democrats have to change the narrative. Make Kamala Harris president.</p>","author_name":"Jim Power & Chris Johns"}