This is Money Show - houseboats, energy bill rip offs and deflation
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This is Money reporters share their latest personal finance advice nuggets, question whether living on a boat is a romantic dream or chemical loo nightmare - and discuss whether we're experiencing good or bad deflation. #houseboats #deflation #energybills #barclays
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to consuming issues. I'm Georgie Frost here with you from nine until one every |
| 0:21.5 | weekday on share radio on digital online and through the share radio mobile app with my producer |
| 0:26.4 | Annie Weston making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. This is the time of the week |
| 0:30.9 | where this is money, the award-winning finance section of the mail online. Join me in the studio journalist |
| 0:36.4 | Rachel Rickard Strauss and Mark |
| 0:38.3 | Schofman here with me today to talk through the top stories that they've been investigating, |
| 0:42.8 | including bad banks at it again. Big fines. Now investors losing faith. What needs to be done |
| 0:49.0 | to improve the behaviour of our banks and have we lost faith in them? Rents are going up and what hope for young people getting on the housing ladder? |
| 0:57.6 | We'll be exploring a host of property issues including to solar panel or not, |
| 1:02.4 | water-based alternative accommodation, |
| 1:05.1 | and what renovation faux paths to avoid if you're thinking of selling up. |
| 1:09.7 | What does the UK economy, Rowan Atkinson and Disneyland |
| 1:12.7 | have in common? Well, there you know, we'll be putting right some common myths about credit |
| 1:17.1 | ratings and Rachel's gone behind the scenes to find out what is going on with the energy |
| 1:21.9 | market that comes as SSE. Sees a big rise in profits despite losing half a million customers in just one year. |
| 1:29.5 | What on earth is going on there? |
| 1:31.1 | Plus, we'll discuss the entrepreneurial 13-year-olds who turned a tax disc idea into a money spinner. |
| 1:37.9 | Talking of age, we're asking today. |
| 1:40.6 | A maths teacher from Essex, 87 years young, has been joined on the school's staff by his 23-year-old newly qualified granddaughter, which got me thinking, we want to hear stories of you working with your family members. |
| 1:57.4 | Good idea, bad idea, let us know. |
| 2:03.6 | A very good morning. Mark, a very good morning, |
| 2:09.7 | Rachel. Morning. Hello. Let's start with you, Rachel. Experiences of working with family members. |
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