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Many Happy Returns — 228 episodes

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Gilt Complex: Is Britain in Hock to the Bond Market?

2

The Declaration of Outperformance: Is America Still Exceptional?

3

Portfolio Positions: Your Starting XI of Asset Classes

4

Your Career is a High-Yield Bond (And It’s Probably Junk)

5

Sequence and Sensibility: Is Now a Good Time to Retire?

6

How the AI Investment Boom Ends, with Tom Stevenson

7

Paws and Reflect: The Surprising Science of Who Wins at Investing

8

Reserve Judgment: How To Run a Central Bank

9

Space Oddity: Is the Biggest IPO in History a Problem for Index Funds?

10

Rising Yields: Gilty Until Proven Innocent?

11

Britain's Slow-Motion House Price Crash

12

Making Sense of a Weird Market: Record Highs, Sticky Inflation, and Silent Alarms

13

Do Your Own Research: What Real Investment Research Actually Looks Like

14

Statistical Sleight of Hand: How Good Numbers Hide Bad Investments

15

Shopping the Drop: Is Anything Actually Cheap?

16

Your Portfolio Wasn't Built for This

17

The War of Unintended Consequences: Oil, Inflation, and Interest Rates

18

Damien Talks Money: What Investors Click vs. What They Need

19

Capital Preservation: The Art of Not Losing Money, with Jasmine Yeo from Ruffer

20

The Tariffs Are Dead. Long Live the Tariffs.

21

Crypto Winter 2.0: Be Careful What You Wish For?

22

Kiss Your SaaS Goodbye: The AI Threat to Software Stocks

23

Gold & Silver Crash: Is Bullion’s Bull Run Over?

24

Vanguard Goes Global: Is Home Bias a Mistake?

25

Does Europe Have the Financial Firepower to Stand Up to Trump?

26

Investing in Crazy Times: Should You Carry on as Normal?

27

Investing vs. Gambling: How to Tell the Difference

28

2026 Watchlist: Trends That Could Shape the Year Ahead

29

10 Investing Facts That Can't be True (But Are)

30

The Naughty List: Assets That Misbehaved in 2025

31

The 2025 Stress Test: The Banks Are Safe... Are You?

32

Devil in the Details: Is the Budget Worse Than Imagined for Investors?

33

The Physics of Financial Markets

34

How to Pick Your Perfect Portfolio, with Tyler from Portfolio Charts

35

FIRE Drill: Is Financial Independence Still Possible?

36

So You’ve Decided to Time the Market…

37

Beyond the Gloom: The UK's Hidden Stock Winners, with Ed Croft

38

The Debasement Trade: Faith, Fear, and the Fall of Fiat?

39

Closed-Circuit Capitalism: Inside AI’s Trillion-Dollar Money Loop

40

The Unbalanced Sheet: What Is Your Net Worth, Really?

41

What I’ve Learned: Keeping Your Portfolio (and Yourself) on Track

42

Cash on the Sidelines: Are Brits Scared to Invest?

43

Gold is a Terrible Investment (And Why You Should Own It)

44

Stick or Twist: Should You Second Guess the Autumn Budget?

45

Stocks vs. Bonds: Who Wins the Next Decade?

46

The Visible Hand: Is America Abandoning Free-Market Capitalism?

47

FCA Lifts the Ban: UK Investors Can Buy Crypto ETNs—But Should You?

48

Has Trump Won the Trade War?

49

Can We Still Trust the Economic Data?

50

The Everything Bubble: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

51

The Unicorn Farm: Betting on AI Startups

52

Why Can't I Retire Early?!

53

Is the UK Stock Market Dying?

54

Neural Net Worth: What If AI Isn’t a Bubble?

55

Fragile Ceasefire: Are Markets Complacent?

56

Crash Course: The Scariest Days in Stock Market History

57

Outsmarting the Index: Strategies That (Sometimes) Work for Active Funds

58

Section 899: America’s Revenge Tax on International Investors

59

ISAs Under Review: Will Cash Savings Get Capped?

60

Know Thyself: How Risk-Tolerant Are You Really?

61

When the Free Lunch Bites Back: Navigating Changing Asset Correlations

62

Buffett Bows Out: Can Berkshire Thrive Without Him?

63

100 Days Down: Making Sense of Trump's Market Shockwaves, with Katie Martin

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What to Buy in Your ISA In 2025: Is This Year Different?

65

Stars and Strife: Is This the End of American Exceptionalism?

66

The Orange Swan: Surviving the $10 Trillion Selloff

67

The Trillion Pound Question: Is Government Debt Out of Control?

68

Quid’s In: How Much Can You Invest Tax-Free?

69

The Hidden Bull Market: The Stocks Defying the Gloom

70

New World Disorder: Investing Amid the Chaos

71

The Road to Wealth: 10 Financial Milestones Worth Celebrating

72

Whale Watching: What If the Biggest Investors Dump Their Holdings?

73

Wall Street Wisdom: The Truth Behind Investing Clichés

74

Are Your Investments Secretly Leveraged?

75

Trade War Truce: Crisis Averted or Just Delayed?

76

Trump, Tariffs and AI: The Stories Shaping Markets in 2025

77

Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse, with Duncan Mavin

78

Soaring Gilt Yields and Strained Public Finances, with Simon French

79

Red Flags: China’s Economic Troubles, with George Magnus

80

Jingle Bulls, Jingle Bears: Are Investors Overconfident Heading into 2025?

81

Emerging Markets: Risky Bet or the Next Big Bargain?

82

Kaput: The End of the German Miracle, with Wolfgang Münchau

83

Stoic Investing: Are We Worrying About the Wrong Things?

84

Trump 2.0: Political Risk and Complacent Markets, with Economist Larry Hatheway

85

Maxed Out Markets: Investing When Everything Is Expensive

86

Gilt Yields and Ghosts of Budgets Past: Who's Afraid of Bond Vigilantes?

87

Chance, Risk, and the Art of Uncertainty, with Sir David Spiegelhalter

88

Election Economics: Will A Trump Win Upend Markets?

89

Time vs Money: How the Clock Transforms Your Investments

90

Bracing for the Budget: Tax Rises, Black Holes & Growth, with Paul Johnson from the IFS

91

Beijing’s Big Gamble: Stock Markets Soar On China's Stimulus

92

Productivity Crisis: Is Europe A Basket Case?

93

Smart Ways to Stash Your Cash: Banks, Bonds & Money Market Funds

94

Confronting Uncertainty: Building a Financial Plan in an Uncertain World

95

Mean Reversion in Markets: What Goes Up Must Come Down?

96

Boom and Bust: Ranking the Biggest Bubbles in History

97

The Default Pension Trap: What to Consider BEFORE You Switch Pension

98

Volatility Trading: Making Money from Market Swings

99

Market Mayhem: Flash Crash or Full Blown Crisis?

100

Metal of the Future: Has Copper Come A Cropper?

101

Don't Get Burned: Avoid Single Points of Failure in Your Finances

102

David vs Goliath: Small-Cap Stocks Finally Surge

103

UK House Prices: Is the Slump Over?

104

Home Country Bias: Should You Overweight Domestic Stocks?

105

Mid-Year Market Update: Are Things As Good As They Seem?

106

Will A Labour Government Be Good For Investors?

107

Interest Rate Cuts: Coming to a Central Bank Near You?

108

Trade Wars: How Will Tariffs on China Impact Your Investments?

109

Building a Multi-Factor Stock Portfolio, with Ed Croft

110

Bond Battle: Individual Bonds or Bond Funds?

111

Building a Bulletproof Retirement Portfolio, with Tyler from Portfolio Charts

112

Earnings Season: Can US Stocks Deliver the Goods?

113

Payout Puzzle: Does Dividend Investing Make Sense?

114

Should you de-risk your portfolio before retirement?

115

Is The Bank of England Broken?

116

How To Invest a Lump Sum in 2024

117

Are Investors Rational? Lessons From the Late Daniel Kahneman

118

Bad Apple: The Trustbusters Target Big Tech

119

Bubble Trouble: Are Investors Right to be Worried?

120

Sustainable Investing: The End of ESG?

121

9 Things to Do Before the End of the Tax Year

122

The Rise and Rise of Nvidia: AI Breakthrough or Bubble?

123

UK Recession: Investing During an Economic Downturn

124

Schrödinger's Flat: How Big a Problem is Commercial Real Estate?

125

Are UK Stocks Really a Bargain?

126

The Best Free Investing Tools

127

Weird Portfolios and Wonderful Companies, with Value Stock Geek

128

10 Things They Don't Tell You About Stocks

129

What I learned from talking to 1,000 people about their investments

130

Demographic Shifts: Will Population Ageing Derail Stock Returns?

131

Soft Landings Are Hard: How Has the US Economy Achieved the Impossible?

132

Merry Market Quizmas: Can You Outsmart Ramin?

133

Charlie Munger's Wisdom: Profit, Polemics and Peanut Brittle

134

The Most Important Number in Investing

135

How to Fight Investing FOMO

136

Treasury Doom Loop: The World's Most Dangerous Trade?

137

Passive Power: Do Index Funds Hurt the Economy?

138

The Magnificent Seven: What if Big Tech Starts to Shrink?

139

Are UK Investment Trusts A Bargain?

140

Is Buy-to-Let Investing Dead?

141

Are Government Bonds Really Risk-Free?

142

The King of Passive Investing: No Longer at the Vanguard?

143

Small caps are cheap. Why do they keep getting cheaper!?

144

Has the Bank of England Bottled It?

145

Macro Mysteries: The Shocking Revision to UK GDP

146

Advice to My Younger Self: What I Wish I'd Known About Investing

147

BRICS: Bigger Is Better?

148

Tales from the Trading Floor: The Truth About Investment Banks

149

Is Value Investing Dead?

150

The Upside of Down Earnings: Plummeting Profits and Soaring Stocks

151

Is the China Growth Story Over?

152

Structured Products: An Expensive Free Lunch?

153

How To Stress Test Your Portfolio

154

Politics vs Economics: What Politicians Misunderstand About Markets

155

How To Live Off Your Investments In Retirement

156

Mid-Year Market Review: Time To Get Off The Bull?

157

How High Will Interest Rates Go?

158

The War on Crypto

159

Markets Are Quiet. Too Quiet.

160

How Late Is Too Late To Get Started Investing?

161

Japanese Stocks Surge: Is It Time To Buy?

162

What Will Cause The Next Market Crash?

163

Stock Market Rally: Fundamentals vs FOMO

164

Has inflation finally peaked?

165

Active Stock Picking Is Getting Harder

166

Rain or Shine: Building an All Weather Portfolio

167

Stunted Growth: Scottish Mortgage vs ARK

168

Contagion: Chain Reactions and the CoCo Powder Keg

169

Silicon Valley Bank collapse: The Fallout and the Bailout

170

Dry Powder: Where to Park Your Cash

171

Raging Bullion: Is Gold a Good Investment?

172

Seven Ways to Slice the Stock Market

173

Love Contractually: How to Invest as a Couple

174

How to Make Better Investing Decisions

175

Broken Records: Why are music catalogues so valuable?

176

Smart Money: If you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy

177

Defaulty Towers: How dangerous is the US Debt Ceiling?

178

Surreal Estate: How far will house prices fall?

179

Tesla: What goes up Musk come down

180

Ready for a portfolio shakeup? What to consider before making a move

181

2022 Merry Market Recap: Claus for concern

182

Don't be fooled by 'Dreamwashing'

183

Tricks of the trade-off: How to balance priorities in investing

184

The Stock Market World Cup

185

The worst week in crypto history... so far.

186

The Long Covid Economy: Will the pandemic permanently change our society and investments?

187

Banana skin in the game: How to learn from your investing mistakes

188

Trick or Treat: Which assets will rise from the dead?

189

Gilt Trip: Did UK government bonds almost blow up the financial system?

190

Rate accompli: Are rising interest rates bad for all assets?

191

The Ten Commandments of Investing

192

Mini budget. Major problems.

193

The Bond King, with Mary Childs

194

How bad will the recession be?

195

Will artificial intelligence transform investing?

196

Is it dumb to invest in IPOs?

197

Investing in China: Year of the Bear?

198

Currency fluctuations: Take the hedge off?

199

Is inflation rigged?

200

Baby Buffett: How to invest for children

201

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.

202

The Weirdest ETFs: Moats, Goats and YOLO

203

The Big Shortage: What happens if Russia turns off the gas?

204

Leverage: No margin for error

205

Government bonds just got interesting

206

Market timing: Signs of the top and bottom

207

UK Stocks: No tech please, we're British

208

This is the new oil... honest.

209

What is risk?

210

How earnings season moves stock markets

211

Stablecoin collapse: The horse has bolted

212

Stock Market Myths

213

Warren Buffett: Is the magic back?

214

Should you hedge your investments against inflation?

215

Emerging Markets: Is it time to invest?

216

Could house prices crash?

217

How much is enough?

218

Meme Reversion

219

In the Toilet: Macroeconomic indicators

220

Bear in Mind: Cognitive bias in investing

221

Russian for the Exits

222

Satellite Navigation: Portfolio part 2

223

Core Strength: Portfolio part 1

224

It's not ESG being green

225

Tech Shares on the Titanic

226

Factor Fiction?

227

Bubble or Nothing?

228

Buffeted by Inflation