Kilkenomics Festival

Kilkenny, the town, gets taken over by comedians and economists and will be there, pretending to be one or the other.

Find tickets at the link in the show notes or at kilkenomics.com.

This episode of Planet Money was produced by Sam Yellow Horse Kessler and edited by Marianne McKeown.

It's fact-checked by Charlotte Isidore and Sierra Juarez.

Wow.

On the 3rd of November, just three days after Kilkenomics.

Yeah.

3rd of November, 13...

It was the highlight of Kilkenomics that year.

Exactly.

The 3rd of November, 1324, just again after Halloween.

On air, online and on smart speaker.

Kilkenomics returns to Kilkenny between Friday the 6th to Sunday the 8th of November and with 70 speakers across 70 events in 12 venues over three days throughout the city including of course the 13th century spectacular gothic surroundings of St Canis' Cathedral.

The festival promises an eclectic programme for all engaged.

So many numbers but very easy to handle for an economist of David McWilliams standing and he joins us here now this morning.

And a decade and a bit later on, we'd be in a totally different place.

And having dealt with that last decade, including things like Brexit and the COVID pandemic, that we never would have envisaged of being problems, but we were all worrying about the housing bubble and the crash that followed.

And if all of those conversations are sort of, you know, stuff that you don't want to engage in as a member of the public, Don't forget, there's also events on as part of Kilkenomics where people will fall asleep, wet themselves, maybe cry, you know, and be looking for a meal during the particular event as well.

Because little laughs, I think 10.30 on the Friday morning, pretty much kicking everything off.

And that's on October 24th.

And then I will be in Kilkenny, Ireland, November 6th through 8th for the Kilkenomics Festival.

And then I'm headed back to the West Coast.

I'll be on Vancouver Island, Nanaimo, at the Sid Williams Theatre Society on November the 10th.