MoneyWeek Talks
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Unlock the secrets to financial success with MoneyWeek editors Kalpana Fitzpatrick and Andrew van Sickle. Each episode features leading figures – from CEOs, entrepreneurs and politicians – sharing their top tips on money, investing, and wealth creation. Tune in and discover how to 'Make It, Keep It, Spend It'.
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Oct 15, 2020 • 26min
Negative interest rates, armed guards and a warehouse full of cash
Merryn and John discuss the extraordinary idea of negative interest rates and explain why as far as they can see they just don't work. Plus, a genius business idea involving guarding piles of cash, and the second in our 20th anniversary questions.
Oct 9, 2020 • 21min
Lockdowns, layoffs and public-sector pensions
Merryn and John discuss the effects of lockdowns on the economy, particularly on the private sector where already financially fragile workers are laid off, compared to the public sector with their final salary pension schemes. Plus, why you should rebalance your portfolio into China, and a question for readers to go in the 20th anniversary issue of MoneyWeek magazine.
Oct 1, 2020 • 37min
Covid-19 and the accelerating revolution in healthcare
Merryn talks to Dr Paul Jordan, Anna Macdonald, and Dr Gareth Blades of Amati Global investors about some of their favourite small UK companies - including the opportunities in healthcare and biotech stocks, and how the sector has responded to the pandemic.
Sep 24, 2020 • 31min
Dale Nicholls: why you should invest in China
Merryn talks to Fidelity's Dale Nicholls about investing in Chinese companies - the sectors he likes, the themes he's following, and why Chinese equities will only grow in importance as the market matures over the coming years.
Sep 17, 2020 • 32min
James Ferguson: How bad data is driving fear of a second wave of Covid-19
Merryn and John talk to MoneyWeek regular James Ferguson about the rise in infections in coronavirus and what the data is really telling us.
Sep 11, 2020 • 29min
Mark Slater: why UK stocks are so unpopular right now
Merryn talks to Mark Slater of the Slater Growth fund about why investors have abandoned the UK – and why they are wrong to have done so. Plus, he picks two of his favourite British stocks.
Sep 4, 2020 • 29min
It's all gone V-shaped
A brief summary of this episode
Aug 28, 2020 • 28min
George Magnus: financial repression and inflation – the only way out
There are very few ways to get out of the debt hole we have dug, economist and author George Magnus tells Merryn, and inflation is one of the most likely. Not tomorrow, perhaps – not even by the end of the year. But it is coming.
Aug 19, 2020 • 32min
Helen Thomas: how Covid and the “velocity of people” will shape our economic future
John talks to Helen Thomas of Blonde Money about how the economy is shifting to the new, post-Covid reality – and how our children will pay for it all. Plus, a look at the US presidential election and why the markets have shot up in the face of so much bad news.
Aug 12, 2020 • 32min
House prices, staycations, and the death of cash
John and Merryn talk about the rise in UK house prices and the fact that everybody is holidaying in the UK, plus gold's new highs, the death of cash, and the trouble with Modern Monetary Theory.
