With an election hurdling toward the people of Ireland, The Currency’s Chief Economics Writer Stephen Kinsella recently wrote a piece examining the promises politician’s make and the economics of elections. He sat down with me to explain in his theories on why politicians make the promises that they do and why there is such a thing as too much democracy. Among the the topics discussed in this interview, Kinsella spoke about: Why the government chose not to open the “sweetie jar”.The confusion around who is Ireland’s median voter today? The complexity of government and how it is growing to a…

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