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Merryn Talks Money with Bloomberg senior columnist Merryn Somerset Webb is your key to understanding how markets work – and how you can make them work for you. Every episode features a relaxed but in-depth conversation with a fund manager, a strategist, a Bloomberg expert or just someone Merryn finds particularly interesting in any given week. Listen in for the kind of insights and explanations everyone can use to help them make better saving and investing choices.


Merryn Talks Money

There’s no tradeoff between net zero and growth in the UK. That’s the conventional wisdom and the position of the current government. But what if it’s the decline in available electricity that’s causing productivity, GDP and living standards to stagnate? 
 
Research from Kallum Pickering, chief economist at Peel Hunt, suggests there may indeed be a connection. He joins Merryn Somerset Webb and senior reporter John Stepek on Merryn Talks Money to explain that the rise of power-hungry artificial intelligence and the UK’s renewed focus on defense may mean the government should reexamine its energy policies.

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Best of: Is There a Tradeoff Between Net Zero and UK Growth?

Whilst usual host Merryn Somerset Webb is still out on holiday, John Stepek is joined by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marcus Ashworth to discuss America's tariff war vs Switzerland, the latest UK fiscal blackhole estimates and Rachel Reeves' job security. 

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Tactics, Tariffs and Truth Bombs

In this week’s Merryn Talks Money, host Merryn Somerset Webb sits down with Euronext CEO, Stéphane Boujnah to explore the reasoning behind the sense that investors are starting to look away from the US and towards Europe for opportunties. They discuss a range of topics from evolving market conditions, investor sentiment and the growing uncertainty surrounding US economic stability. They also discuss the impact of Europe’s institutional framework on its investment appeal and the role of European market integration in attracting capital. 
 
“Europe today is perceived as a large Switzerland. It’s not like everyone is getting fascinated by the growth prospects of European economies,” says Boujnah. “It’s just the feeling is that the institutional framework is stable and predictable.”

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The Global Reallocation of Trust

Whilst usual host Merryn Somerset Webb is out on holiday, John Stepek is joined by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marcus Ashworth to discuss why America's tariff deal with the European Union is actually quite good, the spat between Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and the mood music amongst UK consumers. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The US-EU Tariff Deal and Reeves vs Bailey

Paula Higgins, CEO of HomeOwners Alliance, joins hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek to answer a few more UK housing questions. They tackle all the things you need to know if you're considering a retirement apartment, if you're thinking about buying a house via auction, and Paula explains why home buyers insurance is always worth considering. 

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Are UK Retirement Homes Worth the Investment? And More Housing Questions Answered

Scottish Mortgage Manager Tom Slater joins Merryn Talks Money to explain how the UK investment trust is trying to find tomorrow’s market winners.

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Why Playing the Long Game Still Matters with Scottish Mortgage's Tom Slater

Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss falling UK house prices, capital exodus and relocating to west London. 

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Downward Spiral: UK House Prices on the Slide

Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss some helpful tips for making the most of your money while on holiday. 

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Hot Tips for Saving Money on Summer Vacation

US equities markets are expensive, by any and all measures. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still have a hefty allocation. That’s according to this week’s Merryn Talks Money guest, Nataliia Lipikhina, head of EMEA equity strategy and executive director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank.

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US Stocks Are Expensive. You Should Still Buy Them

John Stepek is on holiday YET AGAIN. So on this week's market roundup, Bloomberg's Morwenna Coniam, who is part of the team that runs the UK Markets Today blog, joins Bloomberg UK Wealth Editor at Large Merryn Somerset Webb. 

They discuss UK inflation unexpectedly rising to 3.6%, its highest level since January 2024, and why it's a headache for BOE Governor Andrew Bailey. Plus, a debrief on Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Mansion House speech, the debate around Cash ISAs, and Bitcoin's surge in price thanks to "Crypto Week" in the US. 

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Cash ISAs, Booming Bitcoin and Mansion House

Economist Felix Martin joins host Merryn Somerset Webb for this week’s episode of Merryn Talks Money to discuss the common understanding of, well, money. Specifically, why the typical conception of what constitutes it may be inaccurate. 

Martin, author of the book Money: The Unauthorized Biography and a former fund manager, says that rather than simply being a token medium of exchange, “money” is in fact “a system of ideas; it is the institution of credits and debts. It is the various technologies which have been developed and deployed for recording credits and debts and for transferring credits and debts from one person or one company to another.” 

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Forget Everything You Know About Money

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