This is Money Show: Interest rates, house price madness, how much to save for a pension, the £40k Skoda
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
When will interest rates rise? Are we any wiser after Super Thursday? Should we start raising them now or keep them rooted to the floor?
The thorny question of when to raise rates is on the agenda in this week's This is Money Show, along with what will happen when they do go up.
Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce, join Share Radio's Georgie Frost in the studio for this week's This is Money Show.
Also on the agenda is sky-high price of homes and whether the property market can continue steaming ahead.
Plus:
Simon crunches the numbers on how much you need to save for a pension.
Lee explains why a family were quoted nearly £2,500 to get faster broadband.
And finally, Georgie wheels out the Skoda jokes.
Listen to the show for the rundown on what you need to know about money this week.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome. You're listening to Share Radio. I'm Georgie Frost here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on digital, online and through the Share Radio mobile app, making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. |
| 0:16.1 | The team from This is Money, the award-winning finance website back in the studio for our weekly catch-up, |
| 0:23.6 | talking through the stories that they've been tackling this week. |
| 0:29.3 | Today I'm joined by editor Simon Lambert and Consumer Affairs editor Lee Boyce on the agenda today. |
| 0:32.3 | Is it fallout Friday after Super Thursday? |
| 0:41.5 | The likely timing of the first bank rate increase is drawing closer. However, the exact timing of the first move cannot be predicted in advance. After that, data done from the Bank of England, the latest |
| 0:47.1 | quarterly inflation report alongside the August rate decision, kept by the way at 0.5% by a decision |
| 0:53.1 | of 8 to 1 and the accompanying minutes, |
| 0:55.9 | what does it all mean for the pound in our pocket? |
| 0:58.1 | We'll sort of re-evaluate probably in a year's time, see what interest rates are doing then, |
| 1:02.4 | and then it might be a case of having to maybe not go out for one or two meals that we are |
| 1:06.1 | currently doing. |
| 1:06.8 | Also today, do you know how much you should be saving for your pension? |
| 1:10.6 | Is there a magic number? |
| 1:11.9 | Confused about your options? |
| 1:13.3 | We'll stay tuned for your pensions 101 plus with advice for savers who want to ensure they get the maximum protection for their money |
| 1:20.3 | ahead of important changes coming in next January. |
| 1:23.7 | And £2,300 for upgrading to super-fast broadband. |
| 1:28.3 | Is this the cost of countryside living |
| 1:30.3 | and are estate agents snubbing people |
| 1:32.3 | that don't use their financial services to the maximum? |
| 1:35.9 | This is money investigates. |
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