Addicted To Money: DVD Released
Many have inquired about the DVD of "Addicted to Money". Now it is available on the ABC Australia website. It is the third biggest DVD seller for the ABC this Christmas. Hope you enjoy it.
Now available from the ABC online store.
Follow The Money: New Book
The Pope's Children are turning 30 and in the four years since David McWilliams introduced us to the generation that could have had it all, the Pope's Children have been betrayed. This book is about real people and how good people can be broken by bad economics. But it doesn't have to be like this. There is a way out.
More details here, or buy online from gillmacmillan.ie
Meet David
David will be giving a talk, followed by an audience Q&A for his new book, Follow the Money at various locations around Ireland over the next month. Full details here.
February 7th, 2010
Growing up in Belfast, my wife was urged by teachers – with limited success, it must be said – to read CS Lewis for the essential Christian message in his writings. Lewis, the brilliant creator of The Chronicles of Narnia, is often described as an English writer. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. This is the man who wrote of his first visit to England that ‘‘the strange English accents with which I was surrounded seemed like the voices of demons.
February 3rd, 2010
It’s been nearly 18 months since the Government announced its bank guarantee. Anglo Irish Bank was nationalised over a year ago and it is coming up to a year since the Government first mooted the NAMA plan. Yet nothing has actually been done since then. Not a single loan has been transferred to NAMA. There has been lots of talk, lots of bluster and point scoring, but still credit in the economy contracts, house prices continue their slow strangling decline and, most significantly, the rest of the world has moved on.
January 31st, 2010
Many years ago, just before the fall of communism in Russia, I lived for a while with a Russian family in a small village about 100 miles west of Moscow called Novi Ruza. The experience was a bit like going to a Russian version of the Gaeltacht. I lived with a family who didn’t speak English, except for the daughter whose only access to English was a scratched recording of Hey Hey My My by Neil Young.
Addicted to Money David McWilliams surveys the wreckage of the global economy and points to the worrying, but potentially transformative challenges ahead.
David travels the world, from Europe to America to China, Australia to Latin America surveying the wreckage that has been caused by the great meltdown. He discovers that this was a crisis that was avoidable, yet ironically necessary if we are to deal with the real crisis that lies just over the horizon: creating an economy that can sustain our society for the long term.
Out November 2009
How big is your piece of the pie? After ten years of a boom and on the eve of a downturn, Irish society has been turned on its head by a Generation War. The clear winners have been the middle-aged Jagger Generation. They have been enormously enriched by the property boom, creating a new class of Accidental Millionaires. The younger generation "the cash-strapped Jugglers" will be badly exposed as the credit wave recedes.
View all 3 complete episodes of The Generation Game here, or to gain a complete insight, check out the book.
The Popes Children The best-selling look at the Celtic Tiger David McWilliams' survey of Ireland today is a celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you’ll find the Kells Angels, those out-of-town commuters who are the cutting edge of the new prosperity. He introduces the HiCos - Hiberno-Cosmopolitans - the elite whose distance from Deckland is measured in their cool sophistication, their ability to feel at home equally on the Boulevard Saint-Michel and on Hill 16. The Pope's Children is an antidote to the endless pessimism of the Commentariat, official Ireland’s gloomy opinion mongers, forever seeing a glass half empty that is in fact three-quarters full. There is a vast surge of ambition, new money, optimism and hope out there. That’s the real story: The Pope's Children tells it - and tells it with style.
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