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4.4 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Everything you thought you knew about life, the Isa and everything is wrong.

Modern life is amazing; we’ve never had it so good.

We have technology and prosperity above anything anyone a few decades ago could have possibly imagined.

And we have a welfare state to look after those who inevitably fall off the merry-go-round of progress.

These are the conclusions of the arguably the world’s greatest businessman, Warren Buffett.

So why are our politicians, bankers and bonkers billionaires so hell-bent on spewing such negativity?

And why has George Osborne just about destroyed the fabulously popular British savings tool, the Cash Isa? It’s been a way of life since the 1990s.

This is Money editor Simon Lambert, consumer affairs editor Lee Boyce and Share Radio consumer commander in chief Georgie Frost are here to explain and entertain.

You’ll learn…

How technology has improved our lives – and why

If there’s any point to saving cash in a tax-free Isa following the Chancellor’s meddling

Whether you’re sitting on a tax-free windfall as one of the winners of the £51m in unclaimed Premium Bonds

That if f you’re listening to this in America because that’s where you’re from, Premium Bonds really IS a lottery where you kind of never lose your stake money

What’s going on with house prices and the prospect of home ownership

Which car manufacturer is shouting loudest this week about whether Britain should stay in Europe

And

Donald Trump, a future president or the voice of supermarket talking till machines?

#isas #money #houseprices #trump #buffett #happiness #technology

Email us hello@dmgmedia.co.uk

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

Producer: Georgie Frost

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0:00.0	This is Money, brought to you in partnership with ns and I.com, helping you keep on top of your savings, whenever, wherever.
0:18.9	A very warm welcome to This Is Money and Share Radio podcast in partnership with NS&I.
0:23.8	I'm Georgie Frost here with you on DAB across the country, online and through the Share Radio mobile app every weekday,
0:30.1	from 9 until midday sharing ideas about money.
0:33.4	I'm joined in the studio by editor Simon Lambert and Consumer Affairs Editor Leiboyce
0:37.7	to talk through some of the stories on their website that they've been investigating over the last seven days.
0:43.2	And on the agenda today, we're asking, in a fun and entertaining way, of course,
0:47.8	is all modern life rubbish from tech to Trump gloom, gloom, gloom, gloom.
0:53.8	I don't like what I see happening to America.
0:56.5	The infrastructure of our country is a laughing stock all over the world. Our airports, our bridges,
1:02.8	our roadways. Is there a light shining in the darkness, Simon thinks there might be in the form
1:07.6	of another US billionaire? Also today, what is the point of
1:11.7	cash-isers with George Osborne's tax revolution? Should you join the banks and ditch them for good?
1:18.1	Also today with a number of available homes for sale falling to its lowest levels since when
1:22.5	girls allowed first top the charts, I'm not sure what fact is more depressing there. We ask,
1:27.2	is it a bad time to buy a
1:28.6	house? The longer that you leave it, the gap widens from that property you're trying to buy. And of
1:33.5	course, that ultimately is just going to cost you more money in the long run. Now with all the
1:37.8	gloom, NS and I are hoping to lighten the mood, looking to reunite 51 million pounds in
1:43.1	unclaimed premium bomb prizes with their owners. Could you be in for a windfall? We do searches all the time to try and find people, but sometimes we just have no leads to go on, and we sit with that money and we wait for people to get in touch, and hopefully we can give it back to them. We'll let you know how to check. And... Unexpected item in bagging area.
2:01.4	Remove this item before continuing.
2:03.6	We'll be looking at the increase in automation in our everyday lives,
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