Bonds away! – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Jacob Jarvis

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Rachel Reeves faces questions over Britain’s economic state this week – the right-wing press is howling, but just how bad is the situation really? And, Musk continues to meddle – we look at his moves here at home and further afield. Plus, it’s the final week where Trump isn’t president! We discuss who’ll be wanting to cosy up to him in the coming days. Ros Taylor talks Jacob Jarvis through all that and more. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis with Ros Taylor. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.0	Hello and welcome to start your week from the bunker. I'm Jacob Jarvis and joining me today is Oh God, what now, Mainstay and author of The Future of Trust, Ros Taylor. Good morning, Ros.
0:32.0	Hello, Jav. Ros, Rachel Reeves seems to be the right-wing target of the week at the moment after she faced
0:38.0	criticism for being away in China while there are several issues to face back at home.
0:43.1	I suppose first of what I'd like to ask you is, how justified do you think the criticism
0:47.3	of Reeves we're seeing at the moment is?
0:49.8	It's not really very justified.
0:51.5	I mean, the crisis in the bond markets at the moment is something
0:55.7	that's affecting a number of countries, and it's affecting us and our ability to borrow money in
1:01.7	particular, and that is what is causing the crisis. Essentially, government borrowing is getting
1:06.1	more expensive, so Reeves is going to have to find billions more from somewhere. The question, of course,
1:13.4	which her opponents are asking, is to what extent is Labor policy responsible for a crisis
1:19.2	in the markets? Is that feeding in, along with all the uncertainty over Trump and all the uncertainty
1:25.3	about inflation, has she put in place measures which are choking off growth?
1:30.5	And of course, that's what the Conservatives are claiming.
1:33.4	Is it much more global then? You mentioned Trump there. And to me, it always seems like whenever there are these massive shifts, Trump can often be pointed to.
1:43.6	Yeah, there is a lot of uncertainty about that. The key thing is
1:47.2	what affects his policies, and especially on tariffs, will have not just on America, but on the
1:52.3	rest of the world, and whether they will stoke inflation. There's also questions in Britain, too,
1:59.6	about how sticky inflation is going to be in this country.
2:02.6	Now, the expectation was that this year, the Bank of England will really start cutting interest rates
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