Budget Analysis, Credit, Christmas and Jeremy Hunt’s Fiscal Drag Show

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Martin Lewis Podcast is here – founder of Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis joins BBC Radio 5 live’s Nihal Arthanayake to answer your questions – such as is Black Friday a good deal? Also this week, Martin has an urgent plea for anyone who can’t afford to clear their credit card debit: get a 0% balance transfer. And there’s Martin’s analysis of the key announcements in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement.

Elsewhere in the podcast, ‘Tell Us’ how much of your Christmas shopping have you done? What did you buy and when did you start? Nihal takes on Martin’s Money Mastermind – he’s quizzed on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and FCA regulations.

Plus podcast exclusive money-saving tips, including where to get a free letter from Santa and how to extend expiring Tesco Clubcard vouchers.

Producer: Isabelle Tudor Editors: Will Cooper, Tom Green and Ben Sears

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast, all about saving you money.
0:11.8	Of course, much of it comes from my five live show with Mihal, but there's lots more that we'll be throwing into it.
0:17.3	This week, we'll be talking, what's in the budget?
0:22.5	You may be listening to it after the budget,
0:27.4	in which case I hope to have put a special extra bit telling you what was in the budget. Also talking about how to cut the cost of your credit card debt, when did you start your Christmas saving,
0:32.1	and loads of podcast extras on top. I'll shut up now so you can listen to, well, probably me, to be honest.
0:55.6	We were talking last week about Chris. We were talking last week about Chris I'm going to feed. I got to be. So I'm going to make sure everybody is.
1:03.0	We were talking last week about Christmas, and we were talking about no unnecessary present packs.
1:05.9	And we got a lot of good feedback on that.
1:09.3	Well, I wrote something this week, and if you forget self-aggrandizing, but hey,
1:11.2	when sometimes you write something and you know you've just nailed the phrasing. And I did that this week. And if you forgive self-aggrandizing, but hey, when sometimes you write something and you know you've just nailed the phrasing. And I did that this week about Black Friday. And as it's
1:16.8	Gray Friday, this Friday, by the way, is the pre-stension of Black Friday. We're now starting to
1:22.4	see many deals that would normally be in Black Friday starting the week before. So I'm calling it
1:26.1	Grey Friday. I think it's worth mentioning. This is my Black Friday shopping memo. If you were going to buy it
1:34.2	anyway and it's half price, you've saved 50%. Hurrah. If you weren't going to buy it, but buy it because it's half price, you've wasted 100%.
1:48.8	Ooh.
1:51.1	I remember reading that tweet actually in thinking, as I looked at my fondue set stroke DJ turntables. That didn't realize I needed.
2:01.9	I did think.
2:03.0	I wish I'd seen that tweet beforehand.
2:05.1	Although, to be fair, if you've got a fondu set stroke DJ turntable,
2:08.2	it's perfect for playing cheesy music.
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