The famous Christmas dinner edition - This is Money show
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
After last year's Christmas show went viral thanks to turkey ham, an improbable Christmas dinner product included in the taste test, the 2015 edition had a lot to live up to.
This week, three wise men from This is Money - Simon, Lee and Rich - join even wiser Georgie Frost at Share Radio HQ to taste test THREE, three-course Christmas 'dinners' from Lidl, Waitrose and Tesco - live on air!
Can cheaper really be better?
Meanwhile, thanks to the US Federal Reserve raising American interests rates earlier in the week, the show also features a lot of valuable truths and myths about interest rates and inflation.
The world was expecting the Fed to raise rates in 2015 and this was the last chance to do it. So it did. What does that mean for you and me?
Also on the agenda...
How to buy a home when your mortgage lender insists you insure it through a company that doesn't exist.
Plus best Christmas adverts, pensioner bonds, the second hand annuity market.
And
Bread pudding.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
Producer: Georgie Frost
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to the This Is Money and Share Radio Christmas podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Georgie Frost here with you on DAB online and through the Share Radio mobile app every weekday from 9 until 1 sharing ideas about money. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm joined today by editor Simon Lambert, |
| 0:21.3 | Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce |
| 0:22.9 | and development editor Rich Browning |
| 0:25.0 | from the award-winning This Is Money |
| 0:26.4 | to talk through some of the stories on their website |
| 0:28.6 | that they've been investigating over the last seven days. |
| 0:31.8 | And on the agenda today is the end of cheap and easy money over. |
| 0:35.3 | A very big deal is made of a very little increase in a country far far away. |
| 0:40.3 | The economic recovery has clearly come a long way, although it is not yet complete. |
| 0:46.3 | The Fed raises interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade where the US leads a wee to follow suit. |
| 0:52.3 | It's a signal to the British public. |
| 0:55.0 | And my expectation would be actually next year we'll start to see interest rate rises here in the UK. |
| 0:59.0 | We'll explain what that move means for the pound in our pocket. |
| 1:03.0 | Also, the Fed may have been hogging the economic limelight this week. |
| 1:07.0 | But we've had some pretty significant data out too. |
| 1:09.0 | Inflation eke up a teeny tiny bit |
| 1:11.4 | employment falls and globally oil prices continue to slide. We'll be discussing all these. |
| 1:16.9 | Plus why pensioner bonds back in the news, Lee, your moment has come again. Is a second-hand |
| 1:22.5 | annuity market a good idea or yet more confusion for pensioners? You need to take advice because it's so complicated. |
| 1:29.7 | I've been to a financial advisor. |
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