Jim Power (economist)

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Jim Power
Other namesJim Powers [1]
OccupationEconomist
EmployerSelf
Television Prime Time
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Board member ofAgri-Aware, a food awareness body;
Chairperson of Love Irish Food [2]

Jim Power is a self-employed economist and podcaster, previously Chief Economist at Friends First, a subsidiary of insurance multinational Achmea. [3] [4] From Waterford, Ireland, he is married and has children. [5]

Power attended University College Dublin (UCD). [3] He has worked for the Bank of Ireland as its Chief Economist, and for Allied Irish Banks as its Treasury Economist. He teaches at Dublin City University and at UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. [3]

His weekly column features in the Irish Examiner , and he is often to be seen commentating in Ireland's media, in newspapers, on radio and on television programmes such as Tonight with Vincent Browne . [3] [4] He also edits Friends First's Quarterly Economic Outlook. [3]

In April 2007, Power appeared on Prime Time where he vehemently opposed UCD Professor of Economics Morgan Kelly's warning that Ireland was heading for economic disaster. Power repeatedly insisted that the Irish property bubble would become "more sustainable in the long term", that it would not burst, and that "the reality is that those things [soaring interest rates, employment shortage, a lot of foreign multinationals leaving the country] are unlikely to happen". Within months it had. [6]

Power later took to writing about the financial crisis. His first book, Picking Up the Pieces, appeared in 2009. [7] Dublin Central TD Paschal Donohoe said it was a "humane thought provoking book." [8]

He now[ when? ] hosts his own podcast the Other Hand, with fellow economist Chris Johns. [9]

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References

  1. Levinson, Steve (17 December 1998). "Codename Euroland". BBC News. Irish economist Jim Powers told me
  2. "About". Jim Power economics. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jim Power". The Céifin Centre.
  4. 1 2 Dervan, Cathal (28 August 2011). "Economist power slams Irish government's failure to sack civil servants". Irish Central. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  5. "A Day in the Life: Jim Power, chief economist at Friend First". Finance Magazine. December 2005.
  6. "Morgan Kelly, UCD, and Jim Power, Friends First, debate the state of the property market with Mark Little". Prime Time. RTÉ. 17 April 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2011 via YouTube.
  7. Power, Jim (November 2009). Picking up the Pieces: Economic Crisis and Hope in Ireland. Blackhall Publishing. ISBN   9781842181836. OCLC   526751448.
  8. Donohoe, Paschal. "Thoughts on 'Picking Up The Pieces' by Jim Power".
  9. "The other hand". cjpeconomics.substack.com.[ self-published source ]