This is Money show - rising interest rates, strong pound and petrol, supermarkets, mobile rip offs
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week This is Money's Mark Shapland joins Personal Finance Editor Rachel Rickard Straus and Share Radio Presenter Georgie Frost for a look at the best bits of money news and the worst excesses of corporate greed.
Interest rates are finally apparently about to go up - that's great, no terrible news isn't it?
There's a similar dilemma with the strong pound. Great for tourists, rubbish for exporters.
And in this week's scams and rip offs, oil companies keep wholesale prices secret so they can overcharge us at the pumps.
Supermarkets are misleading shoppers with dodgy offers and how much are those smiley faces you add to your text messages? And don’t start us on guarantor loans – a new mis-selling scandal?
And finally, the gender pay gap isn't a problem, according to a man. Listen and enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to consuming issues. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Georgie Frost here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on Share Radio on digital online and through the share radio mobile app, making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. |
| 0:19.8 | The team from This Is Money, the award-winning finance section of the Mail Online, |
| 0:23.1 | back in the studio for our weekly catch-up. |
| 0:25.7 | Today I'm joined by Rachel Rickard Strauss and Mark Chaplin. |
| 0:29.1 | Coming up, after six years of record lows, interest rates may finally be about to go up. |
| 0:34.6 | The Bank's Monetary Policy committee's intention is to return inflation |
| 0:38.6 | to target in a sustainable manner within the next two years. But with the surprise rise in unemployment, |
| 0:45.1 | lower inflation, global financial turmoil, plus household indebtedness, is the timing right? And what |
| 0:50.8 | effect will it have on us, San, that pound in our pocket. Another side of the |
| 0:54.5 | same economic coin, though, is the strength of the pound against the euro, up 13% this year. Good |
| 0:59.7 | news for British holiday makers in Europe, British exporters, though, well, they may be less |
| 1:03.7 | thrilled by that news and sticking with our continental neighbours. And compared to them, the |
| 1:08.6 | AA says we're getting ripped off here at the petrol pumps. |
| 1:11.7 | They want something to be done about it. Plus, the Garantor loans as damaging as payday loans, |
| 1:16.9 | citizens' advice certainly think they might be. Also today we'll be discussing the rise and rise |
| 1:22.1 | of the discounters. Little reports a record four billion pound turnover as the big supermarkets come under fire in a single day last year, |
| 1:30.8 | the Competition and Markets Authority found almost a thousand misleading pricing promotions in stores. |
| 1:36.8 | The crucial thing now is what's going to happen, what's going to be done about it, isn't it? |
| 1:40.7 | We all know these pricing tactics are confusing, |
| 1:43.6 | so we need to see them |
| 1:44.8 | get on and enforce the law properly. |
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