Jim Power (economist)

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Jim Power is a self-employed economist and podcaster from Waterford, Ireland. He has worked as chief economist at Bank of Ireland, as treasury economist at Allied Irish Banks, and as chief economist at Friends First, a subsidiary of Achmea. He teaches at Dublin City University and at University College Dublin's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, and writes a weekly column for the Irish Examiner. He is a regular media commentator and has appeared on TV programs such as Prime Time and Tonight with Vincent Browne, and he edits Friends First's Quarterly Economic Outlook. He is a board member of Agri-Aware and the chairperson of Love Irish Food. In 2007 he argued on Prime Time against Morgan Kelly’s warning of economic disaster, predicting the Irish property bubble would be sustainable—a view that did not prove correct. He published the book Picking Up the Pieces in 2009 about the financial crisis. Since February 2021 he hosts the podcast The Other Hand with economist Chris Johns. He studied at University College Dublin and is married with children.