{"podcast":{"title":"The David McWilliams Podcast","slug":"the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453","podcast_index_feed_id":512453,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/20b97d01-ba9b-5fb0-9acf-161391a88cb0","website_url":"http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61b9fedc1a8cbefa383cf076/show-cover.jpg","author":"David McWilliams","episode_count":678,"summary":"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 here in Ireland but in Europe and further afield. Globalisation has brought us all together. We all face similar challenges whether you live in Dublin, London, Minnesota or Milan. If you would like to enjoy all of our content ad-free and have early access to episodes, subscribe to DMCW+ on Apple Podcast. Want to join our crew? Join at davidmcwilliams.ie/crew , where you can enjoy ad-free listening, as well as exclusive bonus content such as premium episodes, our macroeconomics course, early access to episodes and pre-sale access to tickets for Dalkey Book Festival & Kilkenomics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T18:19:51.080822+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453"},"episode":{"title":"Subsidies, Strikes and the Coming July Clash","slug":"subsidies-strikes-and-the-coming-july-clash","published_at":"2026-04-21T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453/subsidies-strikes-and-the-coming-july-clash","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episodes/subsidies-strikes-and-the-coming-july-clash","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/e/69e66e01c8a506316d8903a6/media.mp3","summary":"Ireland has bought itself three months of peace, but at what cost? This week, we unpack the fallout from the recent fuel protests and what they reveal about the deeper fragility of the Irish system. A small, highly organised group of farmers and truckers managed to bring the country to a standstill, exposing just how vulnerable the state really is. So far, the response has been to just throw money at the problem. With subsidies set to expire in July, long summer nights, rising tensions, and the spotlight of the European presidency arriving, all the ingredients are in place for a perfect storm. Add in growing populism, rural frustration, and anti-immigration sentiment, and the question becomes unavoidable: has the government just incentivised the next crisis? At the heart of it all is a bigger issue, a state that increasingly relies on cash instead of control, short-term fixes instead of long-term thinking, and political optics over real strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Ireland has bought itself three months of peace, but at what cost? This week, we unpack the fallout from the recent fuel protests and what they reveal abo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2011,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453/episodes/subsidies-strikes-and-the-coming-july-clash/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453/subsidies-strikes-and-the-coming-july-clash.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}