McWilliam's Agenda

soma

hmm.. I think this is on-topic for this board..

Does anyone subscribe to David McWilliam's 'Agenda' monthly which deals with the economy and global issues..?

Personally I usually find his take on economics, investments etc quite spot on so I was definitely interested in subscribing to the monthly (it's a PDF doc from his website).

However, I was pretty shocked that for 12 issues.. you are charged the princely sum of 199 euro!! :eek:

Now considering he has no distribution, printing costs I just cannot fathom that pricing model. I mean my yearly subscription to the Irish Times is something like 70 euro annually.

So my question is does anyone here subscribe and find the advice & opinions worth that amount of money..? The one thing he has going for him is he is as close (altho no one is perfect) to a non vested-interest economic commentator you can find in this country. But he was the last person I had expected to set off my 'rip off ireland' detector :mad:

Bluehair

I too would be interesting in subscribing as I find he usually has some interesting points to make and, as you say, is reasonably non-bias (as far as is possible today anyway).

However much as I look forward to his article each Sunday there is no way in hell I'm paying two hundred quid a year for his monthly 'agenda' :mad: Hell I'd half expect the guy to hand-deliver it for that kind of money and be up for a discussion on the content afterwards

I'd happily throw €25 at it mind you and would even give it some thought at €50 but given the expected margin he would have on each additional subscription (after all he's doing the work anyway) I'd have thought he'd be more keen on a wider readership.

fintan

I too enjoy his articles but found the price way too much, he is more expensive than my subscription to the economist and financial times combined.

I also received some of the free newsletters, the third one i got contained a thing about irish pub economics, which seemed pretty similar to one of his articles printed previously in the sunday business post.

Victor

I thinks hes (a) stuck with a small user base (b) people are liekly to pass it on regardless of price.