employer article_title name occupation
friends first jim power -lrb- economist -rrb-
 jim power economist
jim power -lrb- economist -rrb-

jim power is chief economist at friends first , a subsidiary of insurance multinational eureko .
from waterford , ireland , he is married and has children .
power attended university college dublin -lrb- ucd -rrb- .
he has worked for the bank of ireland as its chief economist , and for allied irish banks as its treasury economist .
he teaches at dublin city university and at ucd 's michael smurfit graduate business school .
his weekly column features in the `` irish examiner '' , 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 `` prime time '' where he vehemently opposed ucd professor of economics morgan kelly '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 interest rates , employment shortage , a lot of foreign multinationals leaving the country are 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 paschal donohoe said - `` humane thought provoking book . ''
