Jim Power is a self-employed economist, previously Chief Economist at Friends First, a subsidiary of insurance multinational

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. From Waterford, Ireland, he is married and has children. Power attended

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(UCD). He has worked for the

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as its Chief Economist, and for

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as its Treasury Economist. He teaches at

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and at UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. His weekly column features in the ''

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'', 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''. He also edits Friends First's ''Quarterly Economic Outlook''. In April 2007, Power appeared on ''

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'' where he vehemently opposed UCD Professor of Economics

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'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 oaring interest rates, employment shortage, a lot of foreign multinationals leaving the countryare unlikely to happen". Within months it had. Power later took to writing about the financial crisis. His first book, ''Picking Up the Pieces'', appeared in 2009. Dublin Central TD

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said - "humane thought provoking book."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Power, Jim Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Post-2008 Irish economic downturn Academics of University College Dublin Alumni of University College Dublin Irish columnists 21st-century Irish economists Irish Examiner people People associated with Dublin City University Scholars and academics from County Waterford 20th-century Irish economists