Cheapest way to spend abroad | How inflation cut will hit mortgages & savings | Time to fix energy
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Martin looks at the cheapest ways to spend money abroad, reflects on the impact of the fall in inflation and discusses the quarterly energy price cap update.
And you ‘Tell Us’ when you’ve complained and won.
This episode was recorded on lunchtime on 22nd May 2024 – shortly before the General Election date was confirmed.
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. |
| 0:10.7 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:12.9 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nihal, Arthur Nyaka, |
| 0:17.0 | that that's presented this week by Nick Erdley. |
| 0:19.3 | But there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners too. |
| 0:24.7 | In today's pod, inflation has dropped to 2.3%, but how will that impact mortgage and savings rates? |
| 0:32.8 | The energy price cap announcement is due this Friday. |
| 0:36.2 | The price is likely to be cut, but right now, you can save more by fixing. |
| 0:42.4 | And today's big topic, how do you get maximum bang for your bucks or barts? |
| 0:48.1 | Yes, it's all about cheap travel money. |
| 0:50.1 | I did want to talk about dongs, but some of you may get the wrong idea. |
| 0:55.3 | And the tellers this week is all about complaints. What's the best way to complain? How did you |
| 1:01.1 | get the strongest results? And a note, when we recorded the show, there was heavy speculation |
| 1:06.3 | that a general election may be about to be called. So that comes up quite a few times too. |
| 1:12.0 | Yet by the time you're listening, |
| 1:13.8 | you likely know whether that did or didn't happen. |
| 1:16.5 | Shall we play the theme tune? |
| 1:20.5 | I got bills. |
| 1:22.9 | I got paid. |
| 1:24.8 | Someone's going to work for a word. |
| 1:30.3 | I got to be. I got to feed. |
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