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This is Money show - the lucky dip of price hikes, the big investing question it's easy to overlook, Lifetime Isas and alarming credit card debt
The price of all sorts is going up this week - from stamps to council tax. This is Money's Rachel Rickard Straus and Lee Boyce play the lucky dip of …
8 years, 11 months ago
It was a historic moment — Britain is leaving the affordable goods market
It was never about economics.
But 52% or the 72% turnout voted for the UK to leave the European Union last June and now it’s official.
Prime Minister…
8 years, 11 months ago
We’ve seen the future – and it’s long, we’re poorer and there’s not a bank branch in sight
One thousand years ago, life expectancy was about 30 years. In 30 years’ time, someone will be born who could live to 1,000.
This causes a problem fo…
8 years, 11 months ago
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 Hammon…
9 years 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 …
9 years 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…
9 years 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.
Bank…
9 years 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 ar…
9 years, 1 month 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 po…
9 years, 1 month 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 wha…
9 years, 1 month ago