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Merryn Talks Money — 344 episodes

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Emergency Podcast: Why Britain's Political Turmoil Will End In Crisis

2

The Smartest Move You’re Not Making on Your Mortgage

3

What If AI’s Biggest Impact Isn’t Jobs, But Minds?

4

Melt-Up or Mirage? Markets Ignore Everything but Earnings

5

Free Booze to Real Power: Why Shareholder Perks Matter

6

Cheap, Unloved, Profitable: The Case for Value Investing Today?

7

Live From The Master Investor Show: Jim Mellon and Stephen Yiu

8

What Red Squirrels Reveal About Britain’s Broken Investing Culture

9

Andy Haldane on Britain’s Fiscal Squeeze and Growth Problem

10

Markets in a Permanent Mini-Crisis: Why Investors Are Waiting, Not Predicting

11

Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

12

How to Invest Amid an Upended Global Financial Order

13

Are Markets Just Plain Wrong to Keep 'Looking Through' The Iran War?

14

The Contrarian Case for London Real Estate After a Decade of Stagnation

15

Why You Should Wait Out AI’s Super-Spending False Start

16

Markets Wrap: Ceasefire Uncertainty, Energy Supply Shocks, and Chancellor Miliband?

17

Cambridge Professor Helen Thompson on the Iran War, Energy Markets and Britain’s Risks

18

Active vs Passive: How to Help Your Kids Invest

19

Why Investors Are Rotating Into Commodities with BlackRock's Evy Hambro

20

Markets Wrap: Gold, Bonds and Bitcoin Struggle as War Uncertainty Clouds Investor Outlook

21

What's Eating Away at Inheritance Money

22

The Convergence Trade: Cathie Wood’s Boldest Predictions

23

Inflation Isn’t Done: Why the Next Shock Could Be Worse

24

What Are Absolute Return Funds And Should You Invest In Them?

25

Why Contrarians Can't Get Enough of Real Assets

26

Markets Wrap: Private Credit, War and a Lack of Safe Havens

27

UK Smart Savings Dilemma: SIPP, ISA or LISA?

28

Gold, Debt and the AI Boom: A Financial Historian’s Warning

29

Markets Wrap: War, Energy and the Return of Inflation Risk

30

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves on Iran Shock, US Trade and Inflation Risks

31

What Can Quant Trading Strategies Teach Us About Markets?

32

Markets Wrap: From YOLO to HALO

33

The 51% Graduate Tax

34

Diversification Play: Why It's Not Too Late to Buy Asia

35

Markets Weekly: Inflation Falls, Wage Growth Cools, and Bets on BOE Cuts

36

REITs Explained: How Real Estate Investment Trusts Work and What Moves Their Prices

37

Modern Monetary Theory: Free Money or Fiscal Fantasy?

38

Markets Weekly: AI Sparks Market Rotation, UK Political Risk, and the Pensions Property Debate

39

What Reform Plans to Do If It Takes Over the UK with Richard Tice

40

The 'Boring' Industries the UK Can’t Afford to Lose

41

Emergency Pod: Is It All Over for Bitcoin?

42

Markets Weekly: Tech and Crypto Slide, BOE Surprise, Turbulence for Gilts and Pound

43

Best of: How Do You Pick the Best Wealth Manager?

44

Why the Price of Gold Reflects a Long-Term Shift

45

Markets Weekly: Gold’s Moves, Yen Intervention, and Fallout From a Weaker Dollar

46

How Much Insurance Do You Really Need?

47

In Greenland with Pippa Malmgren: Why the Arctic Is the New Geopolitical Battleground

48

Markets Weekly: Japan’s Bond Shock and the Global Ripple Effect

49

Asking Prices vs Reality: The True State of the Housing Market

50

GMO's Jeremy Grantham on buying start-ups, an AI bubble and why the small-cap premium is a myth

51

Silver’s Surge, Oil’s Bounce, London Flat Prices and the Quiet Gilt Rally

52

You’ve Spent Your Life Saving. Now Learn How to Spend

53

Venezuela’s Oil Reserves Versus Reality: Why Output Can’t Jump Overnight

54

FTSE 100 Hits 10,000 as Defence, Commodities and Gold Lead Market Themes

55

Your 2026 Money Reset: Practical Steps to Be Better Off by Year-End

56

From Q-Day to Mars: The Market Shocks That Could Define the Year Ahead

57

John Law: The Gambler Who Invented Modern Money (Part 2)

58

John Law: The Gambler Who Invented Modern Money (Part 1)

59

Gold’s Shine, Small Cap Hopes and What to Watch in 2026

60

How Much Should You Really Give Your Kids? Inheritance, Incentives and Money Mindsets with Hamish Leng

61

Permira's Kurt Björklund: Where Are We in the Private Equity Cycle?

62

Silver Breaks Out. Oil Breaks Down. Markets Hold Their Breath.

63

Debt Traps, Interest Rates and Global Shifts: A Candid UK Outlook with Gerard Lyons

64

Why Europe’s Banks and Energy Stocks May Lead the Next Rally with Blackrock's Helen Jewell

65

Investment Trust Turmoil, Silver’s Surge, and Bitcoin’s Wild Ride

66

Dambisa Moyo on Why the AI Bubble Still Has Room to Grow

67

UK Budget Special: What Will It Cost You?

68

The UK Government Must Cut Spending - Here's Why (with Kallum Pickering)

69

Why This Controversial Investment Trust Deal Has Riled Key Shareholders

70

Offshore Bonds: What They Are and Who They’re For

71

Jim Reid on Why Cash Is the Riskiest Investment of All

72

UK Housing Jitters, Market Moves, and "Psychic Wealth"

73

Why UK Small Caps Could Soar — Rockwood’s Richard Staveley on Value, Catalysts & Momentum

74

Yes It’s an AI Bubble. Here’s Why (with Albert Edwards)

75

Rate Cuts, Fiscal Resets, and AI Reality Checks

76

Where to Invest $1 Million Right Now

77

Rob Arnott on AI Mania: Lessons From the Dot-Com Era

78

Art Laffer Has a Prescription for Britain’s Economic Woes

79

UK Renters’ Rights Act: What Tenants and Landlords Need to Know

80

When Gold Loses Its Shine

81

How the US-China Rivalry Is Reshaping the Global Economy with Neil Shearing

82

Outbreaks of Reality: Markets Catch Up to the Warnings

83

Crypto ETNs: How Dangerous Are They?

84

How to Find—and Force—Value From Tokyo to Seoul

85

In Gold We Trust: What Surging Metals Say About a Shaky Economy

86

We Speak to the Pensions Expert Who is Taking His Tax-Free Cash Now

87

Can Gold Keep Rallying?

88

UK IPOs Have Dried Up, US Tech Booms, and Japan’s Surprise Rally

89

What Labour’s Tax Talk Really Means for Your Money

90

Could a Fiscal Crisis Bring Down the Government?

91

Introducing IVF Disrupted: The Kindbody Story

92

Burnham’s Bond Gamble, Gavekal’s Turkish Play, and Gold’s Crowded Hedge

93

Your Money Questions Answered: Pensions, Taxes and the UK’s Debt Outlook

94

What to Buy Now as The US Loses Its Edge

95

UK Jobs Squeeze, AI Disruption, and Diverging Rate Cuts

96

UPDATE: Why Your Tax-Free Pension Lump Sum Is Under Growing Threat

97

The Real Reason UK Energy Prices Are Skyrocketing

98

Gold vs. Bitcoin: What’s Driving the Safe-Haven Rally in 2025

99

How University Students Should Approach Their Finances

100

Odd Lots: Liz Truss on the 'Doom Loop' Engulfing the UK Economy

101

Gilts, Gold and Property Tax

102

Live from Fringe: Virtue, Vice and the Price of Money

103

Live from Fringe: How to Prevent AI From Causing an Economic Catastrophe

104

Live from Fringe: What Would Adam Smith Think About Trump’s Tariffs?

105

Best of: The 'Humble' Investor Says Sell Private Equity, Sell US Tech, Buy Polish Small Caps

106

Have We Finally Turned a Corner?

107

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

108

Tactics, Tariffs and Truth Bombs

109

The Global Reallocation of Trust

110

The US-EU Tariff Deal and Reeves vs Bailey

111

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

112

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

113

Downward Spiral: UK House Prices on the Slide

114

Hot Tips for Saving Money on Summer Vacation

115

US Stocks Are Expensive. You Should Still Buy Them

116

Cash ISAs, Booming Bitcoin and Mansion House

117

How Much Does Your Credit Score Matter?

118

Why It’s Time to Invest in Mining

119

Here’s the UK Wealth Tax to Really Worry About

120

Why Latin America is Attractive to Global Investors

121

Rachel Reeves’s Tears Move Markets and the AstraZeneca Wake-Up Call

122

Bitcoin Treasuries: Inflation Hedge or Hype-Driven Bubble?

123

In Defense of Donald Trump’s First Five Months

124

Is There Such a Thing as a Safe Haven?

125

Why Has the Market Shrugged Off Escalation in the Iran-Israel Conflict?

126

Why Recessions Aren’t What They Used to Be

127

Inflation, BoA and Gold's Time to Shine

128

Doing Your Due Diligence on Private Markets

129

Recession Threat Is Back—and Maybe Something Worse

130

How to Fix the UK Stock Market Quickly and Cheaply

131

How Do You Pick the Best Wealth Manager?

132

Is China Reversing Its ‘Uninvestable’ Image?

133

Go International, Benefit From Volatility, and Other Tips for Investing $100k Right Now

134

Forget Everything You Know About Money

135

Japan's Bond Market in Focus

136

Should Commodities Still Have a Place in Your Portfolio?

137

Ed Yardeni Says It’s Not as Bad as You Think

138

A Lesson Learnt from Australian Pension Funds

139

Avoiding the Hidden Pitfalls of UK Homebuying

140

The Fiscal Shift That Means You Must Own Europe

141

Markets Round Up: Private Equity, ISAs, Rachel Reeves

142

Navigating the Paperwork of Buying a UK Home

143

The UK's Trade Deals: A Turning Point?

144

Understanding Freehold Versus Leasehold in UK Real Estate

145

The Best Investment Ideas Outside the US

146

The Growing Chorus Singing Nuclear Power’s Praises

147

There’s More to the US Market Downturn Than Tariffs

148

Making Sure You Don’t Buy the Wrong House

149

Where One Top Value Investor Thinks You Should Put Your Money Now

150

The Great Rotation is Here, What's Next For Gold, and UK Borrowing

151

Is It Really a Good Idea to Buy New in the UK?

152

Are Shared Ownership Properties Actually Worth it?

153

Why Economists Are Looking at Economics All Wrong

154

Trump, Trade Wars and the Basis Trade

155

Why Hiring a UK Mortgage Broker Is Probably a Good Idea

156

Why This Is China’s Year in Markets

157

Tariffs, Brexit Benefits and the Minimum Wage

158

How to Buy a House in the UK Right Now

159

There’s a Stock Picker’s Paradise Waiting for You

160

Spring Statement Reaction: Reeves’s Margin of Safety Looks Too Narrow

161

Where to Invest $1 Million Right Now

162

Buy and Hold is Dead. Billionaire Michael Spencer on Why Good Investors Trade A Lot.

163

Sort Your Finances Out Before Reeves’s Big Day

164

Why Dying Broke May Not Be a Bad Idea

165

Looking to Protect Your Wealth In Crazy Markets? Here's How.

166

Time To Consider Investing in German Companies and What About That 'Trump Put'?

167

Is There a Tradeoff Between Net Zero and UK Growth?

168

Where to Invest $100,000 Right Now

169

GMO's Jeremy Grantham Warns US Stocks Are About to Be Crushed

170

Magnificent 7 Stocks Slip Into Correction, Bitcoin Dips and Trump's "Gold Card" Idea

171

Which Golden Visas Are the Shiniest of All?

172

Why Avoiding Investments Is as Important as Investing

173

UK Inflation Rises to 10-Month High, Protecting Your Savings, and Energy Talk

174

What Do You Need All That Cash For?

175

What Would Adam Smith Think of Donald Trump?

176

What to Make of Gold’s Tremendous Rise

177

The Perpetual Hunt for ‘Alpha’

178

Trump's Tariff Threats and Central Banks, Gold's Surge, and US Equities

179

Don't Leave Your Family a Nightmare When You Die

180

Reeves' Heathrow-Fueled Growth Plan, DeepSeek and the Effect on US Big Tech, and Mini-Bubbles are Bubblin'

181

DeepSeek's Disruption and What It Means for Your Investments

182

To Get The UK Growing Again, We Need Cheap, Secure Energy with Simon French

183

Trump Memecoin Frenzy, Herald Trust Says No to Saba, and Rachel Reeves in Davos

184

When to Invest in Venture Capital Trusts

185

Merryn and John Discuss the Showdown Between Saba and Investment Trusts

186

How Saba's Boaz Weinstein Plans to Transform UK Investment Trusts

187

How to Start Your Investment Journey

188

The 'Humble' Investor Says Sell Private Equity, Sell US Tech, Buy Polish Small Caps

189

Plunging UK Markets, What's Reeves Moment, and the ESG Rollback

190

Best Of: How to Invest in the Coming Space Gold Rush with Tim Marshall

191

Best Of: Lyn Alden Talks Bitcoin and Explains Why Money is Falling Behind the Times

192

Money Stuff Podcast: Stripe's John Collison

193

UK Wage Inflation, American Euphoria and The Investment Trust Invasion

194

If You Had to Buy Something Now and Hold It For 18 Years, What Would It Be?

195

Everyone Wants Their Money to Come Home with Russell Napier

196

Oman Leapfrogs London, Pension Funds and Private Assets, Executive Pay

197

What are the Financial Benefits of Getting Married ?

198

Saxo’s 'Outrageous' Forecast Sees Trump Blowing Up the Dollar

199

Euro Chaos, London's Shrinking Exchange, and the Cult of US Stocks

200

How to Navigate the Great Wealth Transfer

201

Argonaut’s Barry Norris Says Invest in Argentina and the US

202

The Lights Are Flashing Red for America --And Amber for the UK

203

Fallout From the UK Car Financing Commission Scandal

204

Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

205

How to Make Britain Prosperous Again with Sam Bowman

206

The Farmers Are (Rightfully) Angry and UK Inflation Ticks Up

207

How Does the UK Pension Drawdown Work?

208

Why AI-Driven Productivity Is a Decade Away in the UK

209

Everybody Relax. We're Talking About Crypto.

210

Is There a Smarter Way to Pay Your Taxes?

211

Why Trump’s Victory Is Musk’s ‘Tech-Bro Coup’

212

A Dose of Cynicism from John and The Case for Becoming a Barrel Maker

213

DC and DB Pension Schemes: What They Are and How They Work

214

Live Event: What Did Rachel Reeves Risk With Her First Budget?

215

What Japan’s Angry Voters Mean for Your Money and Falling Fertility

216

The Best Way to Handle UK Student Debt

217

Why Everything You Think You Know About Money Is Wrong

218

Gold’s Record-Breaking Run and Geopolitical Conspiracy Theories

219

How UK Parents Should Be Saving for Their Children

220

Listen Now: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

221

How Investors Should Approach The US Election with Liz Ann Sonders

222

Employer NICs Drama and The UK Inflation Slide

223

Using a Lifetime ISA to Get on the London Housing Ladder

224

How This Fund Manager Finds ‘Diamonds in the Dust’

225

A Discomforting Signal From the UK Bond Market and Budget, Budget, Budget!

226

How Safe Is Your Pension Pot?

227

How The World Lost Its Mind with Author Dan Davies

228

UK Housing Perks Up, China's Bazooka Stimulus Sparks a Stock Rally

229

Pensions Are Another Reason to Worry About the UK Budget

230

Fund Manager Sees Energy Transition as Opportunity of a Lifetime

231

Roundup: Labour Party Conference 'Vibes,' Budget Fears, and Why We Should Care the Ultra-Rich are Leaving

232

How Amateur Investors Can Maximize Their Returns

233

Looking to Outperform? Sell the US and Buy the UK

234

Roundup: Fed Cut Fallout and Bank of England Holds

235

I'm 18. Is Saving Into My Workplace Pension Enough?

236

Security, Bookmarked: Finance (Sponsored Content)

237

Has the British Equities Market Been 'Hollowed Out'?

238

Roundup: Nervous Markets, The Oil Price Slide, UK Pensions to the Rescue

239

Should You Pay Your Child’s University Fees?

240

How the Election Will Affect US-China Relations

241

Roundup: Why Gold Is Having a Moment, UK Eco Health and A Tricky Day for Markets

242

Live from Fringe: Why No One In Government Understands Anything with Ed Conway

243

Live from Fringe: How to Tax the UK’s Richest

244

Live from Fringe: What Would Adam Smith Think of the UK Deficit?

245

Listen Now: Misconception

246

Anne Applebaum Says Trump 2.0 Might Be Good News For Dictators

247

Money Stuff: The Podcast: Guy on Twitter: PSUS, Left, ETFs

248

How to Trade in a Radically Reshaped Economy

249

The Secret to a Contrarian Investor's Success

250

Why Holding For the Long Term Is For Amateurs

251

Beware of the ‘Concentrated’ AI Chipmaker Bubble

252

Why UK Bosses Need More Skin in The Game

253

This Swiss Private Bank Is Bullish on Britain, Japan and Copper

254

Why Now Is the Moment for Bitcoin and Gold

255

Reasons to Put Your Money in a ‘Fragile’ Europe

256

Living Longer Means Rethinking How You Work Right Now

257

How To Protect Your Pension From a New Government

258

The Argument Against Relative Performance

259

Why Everyone Believes What They Want to Believe with Alex Edmans

260

Making the Case for Active Investing

261

Why Sunak May Quit Ahead of a July 4th Election

262

Why the UK Stock Market May Be Slowly Dying with Peel Hunt's Charles Hall

263

How to Reach Net Zero Within a Capitalist System

264

Why Anthony Scaramucci Is Predicting Trump Will Lose with In the City

265

Listen Now: The Big Take

266

Why Capitalism May Soon Be Dead with Bernard Connolly

267

Why Politics Mean You Won't See a Recession in 2024 with Julian Brigden

268

Investment Trusts May Be the Right Place for Your Money

269

Introducing: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

270

Lyn Alden Makes the Case for Bitcoin, Explains Why Money is Falling Behind the Times

271

BONUS: Listen to This Before You Blow Your Bonus

272

The ‘Soft Landing’ Skeptics Are Still Out There with Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid

273

Why Nuclear Power Should Be Ramped Up

274

BONUS: How to Really Buy a Used Car

275

How to Invest in the Coming Space Gold Rush with Tim Marshall

276

Kwasi Kwarteng Says Sunak Should Feel Free to Cut Taxes

277

Ed Yardeni Says The Roaring Twenties May Be Back

278

Bitcoin or Gold? Oaktree’s Howard Marks Sees Little Difference

279

Introducing: Bloomberg Daybreak Europe Edition

280

What 2024 Holds for the UK Economy with Simon French and Laura Foll

281

An ‘Outrageous’ Prediction That American Capitalism Is Ending with Steen Jakobsen

282

Regenerative Farming’s Promise for the Planet with Peter Byck

283

Why New Rules Are Needed to Avoid War in Space: Pippa Malmgren

284

Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

285

The Kokou Agbo-Bloua Aftershow

286

SocGen’s Global Head of Economics Argues a US Downturn Is Inevitable

287

The Edward Chancellor Aftershow

288

The Revenge of the Zero-Rate World Is Coming with Edward Chancellor

289

The Barry Norris Aftershow

290

Hedge Fund Boss Barry Norris's ‘Moral Case’ for Fossil Fuel Investing

291

The Jonathan Asante Aftershow

292

Why Emerging Markets Can Still Be a Good Bet

293

Introducing: Elon, Inc.

294

The Cathie Wood Aftershow

295

ARK'S Cathie Wood Hasn’t Lost Faith in the Future

296

Where Have All the Companies Gone?

297

The Duncan Lamont + Douglas Abbott Aftershow

298

The Paul Johnson Aftershow

299

Can the UK Fix Its Troubled Tax System?

300

BONUS: The Housing Market Where Renters Can Make a Fortune

301

The Jeremy Grantham Aftershow

302

Jeremy Grantham Says No One Should Invest in the US

303

Seema Shah Warns: US Recession Still Coming. What Does That Mean For Your Money?

304

Is Brexit Truly to Blame for the UK’s Problems?

305

Why UK Pensions Triple Lock Must Go and How ESG Threatens Democracy

306

BONUS: Fringe Panel Aftershow, Why the Heavy Hand of the State Is Getting Heavier

307

Fringe Festival Panel Day 2: Jim Mellon, Richard Wilson, Paul Johnson and Simon Evans

308

Fringe Festival Panel Day 1: Russell Napier, Anna MacDonald and James Anderson

309

BONUS: The Bank of England Arrives at a ‘Crunch Point’

310

A Conversation With Vivek Ramaswamy: the Man Who Warned of 'Woke Capitalism'

311

How Angry Should the UK Be With the Bank of England?

312

Mervyn King Says the Bank of England Is Making a ‘Big Mistake’

313

US Inflation Will Keep Falling, Intertemporal’s Pellegrini Predicts

314

More Ways for Investors to Crack the World of Private Equity

315

Why the Rise of ‘Counter-Elites’ Spells Bad News for the UK

316

BONUS: The Bank of England’s Big Decision on Digital Currency

317

Using Active Management to Cut Downside Risks

318

The Inconvenient Truth About Reaching Net Zero

319

It’s Time to Buy Japan

320

Burnbrae’s Mellon Says Shell and BP Are Good Long-Term Investments

321

Why UK Value Stocks Are Still the Trade of the Decade

322

Inflation Will Fall, Just Not the Way You Think

323

Central Banks at Risk of Breaking Economies, Dario Perkins Warns

324

Why Your Portfolio Needs Investment Trusts

325

Is the Age of Growth in the UK Really Over?

326

Fund Manager Says There’s an Easy Way to Make 3% More

327

How to Get a 7% Return Without Buying Risky Equities

328

Capital Had Its Day. Now It’s Labor’s Turn, Troy’s Lyon Says

329

Why You Should Stop Selling UK Equities

330

Why UK Mortgage Rates Aren’t as High as You Think

331

What the New Cold War Means for the Global Economy with Niall Ferguson

332

Why Inflation May Not Be Heading Back to 2%

333

The Top Takeaways From 300 Years of Investment Advice

334

The Collapse of the UK Housing Market May Be Coming

335

The Year of the Value Hunter Has Arrived

336

Why Governments Won’t Let Inflation Go Away

337

Deflation May Be Coming Sooner Than You Think

338

The Case For Buying Emerging Markets, Bonds and Gold in 2023

339

How the Global Economy Has Been 'Rewired' and What That Means for Your Portfolio

340

The bad news may soon be over for UK small caps

341

Why the best small UK companies have a global niche

342

Losing money is the price of making money

343

Saxo’s ‘Outrageous’ Prediction? Gold Will Top $3,000 in 2023

344

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