Podcast Episodes

10 reasons our finances are in a mess (without even mentioning Brexit)

What a mess we’re in. Without too much effort this week, we spotted 10 messes.

It was made pretty easy with the fallout from Chancellor Philip Hammond’s first go at a Budget making news all week. Hi…

Published on 8 years, 9 months ago

Was the whole Budget a joke? Simon Lambert dissects a Chancellor's kamikaze attack on small business

It felt like there was something fishy going on during the Budget speech this week.

Chancellor Philip Hammond peppered the few official announcements he made with low-rent panto gags and political ji…

Published on 8 years, 9 months ago

Is this the end of the bull run? A better explanation will be harder to find

A speech this week from President Donald Trump sent the US stock market soaring to a record high.

And where the US goes, the rest of the world follows. The FTSE 100 is also impressing investors.

Tru…

Published on 8 years, 9 months ago

Dumb business decisions - banks vs BA, Ferrari and football clubs

There are a lot of laughs this week as Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost take a sideways look at some of the week’s potty money stories.

Banks are in the spotlight because it’s reporting sea…

Published on 8 years, 10 months ago

The three events that could bring about financial misery for millions

It’s the Holy Trinity of money-geddon (to mess up a couple of Biblical metaphors). But this could be big.

We’re less well off than in 2008, prices are going up and wages aren’t.

This adds up to trou…

Published on 8 years, 10 months ago

Madness, madness, they call it (housing) madness

The property market is broken.

Years of cheap money have allowed lenders to lend more and more to people earning less and less and we’re at crisis point.

The politics of trying to boost the housing…

Published on 8 years, 10 months ago

REVEALED: There is a way to save your money without losing out

We haven’t left the world’s biggest trading block yet so measuring the success of Brexit is tricky. It hasn’t happened. There’s still no plan.

But what we do know is this.

The inequality gap between …

Published on 8 years, 10 months ago

Auf wiedersehen, adieu, so long, au revoir to the banks

We tried hard this week not to talk too much about Britain's exit from the European economic bedrock as it jumps headfirst into bed with Donald Trump’s protectionist America.

Instead, and in related…

Published on 8 years, 10 months ago

From Brexit plans to Trump, it's just got real - what does that mean for your money?

This week will go down in history for a couple of major events.

A new US president being sworn in is always big news but that happens every four years. OK, Donald Trump might shake things up a bit …

Published on 8 years, 11 months ago

Will the FTSE keep rising? We've never had it so good, or have we?

Investors have been cheered by a stunning start to 2017 for the FTSE 100, which racked up a record-breaking run of closing highs.

But does that mean we should be confident or worried?

The FTSE 100 i…

Published on 8 years, 11 months ago