Merryn Talks Money

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Merryn Talks Money with Bloomberg senior columnist Merryn Somerset Webb is your key to understanding how markets work – and how you can make them work for you. Every episode features a relaxed but in-depth conversation with a fund manager, a strategist, a Bloomberg expert or just someone Merryn finds particularly interesting in any given week. Listen in for the kind of insights and explanations everyone can use to help them make better saving and investing choices.

Recent Episodes
  • Where One Top Value Investor Thinks You Should Put Your Money Now
    Apr 25, 2025 – 31:09
  • The Great Rotation is Here, What's Next For Gold, and UK Borrowing
    Apr 23, 2025 – 10:16
  • Is It Really a Good Idea to Buy New in the UK?
    Apr 22, 2025 – 20:57
  • Are Shared Ownership Properties Actually Worth it?
    Apr 15, 2025 – 12:35
  • Why Economists Are Looking at Economics All Wrong
    Apr 11, 2025 – 34:16
  • Trump, Trade Wars and the Basis Trade
    Apr 10, 2025 – 20:55
  • Why Hiring a UK Mortgage Broker Is Probably a Good Idea 
    Apr 8, 2025 – 13:56
  • Why This Is China’s Year in Markets
    Apr 4, 2025 – 31:17
  • Tariffs, Brexit Benefits and the Minimum Wage
    Apr 3, 2025 – 13:34
  • How to Buy a House in the UK Right Now
    Apr 2, 2025 – 22:41
  • There’s a Stock Picker’s Paradise Waiting for You 
    Mar 28, 2025 – 31:46
  • Spring Statement Reaction: Reeves’s Margin of Safety Looks Too Narrow
    Mar 27, 2025 – 19:26
  • Where to Invest $1 Million Right Now
    Mar 26, 2025 – 16:06
  • Buy and Hold is Dead. Billionaire Michael Spencer on Why Good Investors Trade A Lot.
    Mar 21, 2025 – 31:15
  • Sort Your Finances Out Before Reeves’s Big Day
    Mar 19, 2025 – 15:05
  • Why Dying Broke May Not Be a Bad Idea
    Mar 18, 2025 – 17:18
  • Looking to Protect Your Wealth In Crazy Markets? Here's How.
    Mar 14, 2025 – 35:13
  • Time To Consider Investing in German Companies and What About That 'Trump Put'?
    Mar 13, 2025 – 21:33
  • Is There a Tradeoff Between Net Zero and UK Growth?
    Mar 6, 2025 – 32:30
  • Where to Invest $100,000 Right Now
    Mar 4, 2025 – 18:01
  • GMO's Jeremy Grantham Warns US Stocks Are About to Be Crushed
    Feb 28, 2025 – 42:04
  • Magnificent 7 Stocks Slip Into Correction, Bitcoin Dips and Trump's "Gold Card" Idea
    Feb 26, 2025 – 18:08
  • Which Golden Visas Are the Shiniest of All?
    Feb 26, 2025 – 21:41
  • Why Avoiding Investments Is as Important as Investing
    Feb 21, 2025 – 32:34
  • UK Inflation Rises to 10-Month High, Protecting Your Savings, and Energy Talk
    Feb 19, 2025 – 16:49
  • What Do You Need All That Cash For?
    Feb 18, 2025 – 14:42
  • What Would Adam Smith Think of Donald Trump? 
    Feb 14, 2025 – 49:19
  • What to Make of Gold’s Tremendous Rise
    Feb 11, 2025 – 32:24
  • The Perpetual Hunt for ‘Alpha’
    Feb 7, 2025 – 38:23
  • Trump's Tariff Threats and Central Banks, Gold's Surge, and US Equities
    Feb 5, 2025 – 16:55
  • Don't Leave Your Family a Nightmare When You Die
    Feb 4, 2025 – 28:39
  • Reeves' Heathrow-Fueled Growth Plan, DeepSeek and the Effect on US Big Tech, and Mini-Bubbles are Bubblin'
    Jan 31, 2025 – 23:49
  • DeepSeek's Disruption and What It Means for Your Investments
    Jan 28, 2025 – 48:52
  • To Get The UK Growing Again, We Need Cheap, Secure Energy with Simon French
    Jan 24, 2025 – 41:15
  • Trump Memecoin Frenzy, Herald Trust Says No to Saba, and Rachel Reeves in Davos
    Jan 23, 2025 – 19:22
  • When to Invest in Venture Capital Trusts 
    Jan 21, 2025 – 21:04
  • Merryn and John Discuss the Showdown Between Saba and Investment Trusts
    Jan 17, 2025 – 30:15
  • How Saba's Boaz Weinstein Plans to Transform UK Investment Trusts
    Jan 15, 2025 – 51:23
  • How to Start Your Investment Journey 
    Jan 14, 2025 – 28:26
  • The 'Humble' Investor Says Sell Private Equity, Sell US Tech, Buy Polish Small Caps
    Jan 10, 2025 – 45:47
  • Plunging UK Markets, What's Reeves Moment, and the ESG Rollback
    Jan 8, 2025 – 13:22
  • Best Of: How to Invest in the Coming Space Gold Rush with Tim Marshall
    Jan 3, 2025 – 57:44
  • Best Of: Lyn Alden Talks Bitcoin and Explains Why Money is Falling Behind the Times
    Dec 27, 2024 – 01:01:27
  • Money Stuff Podcast: Stripe's John Collison
    Dec 20, 2024 – 49:59
  • UK Wage Inflation, American Euphoria and The Investment Trust Invasion
    Dec 18, 2024 – 19:26
  • If You Had to Buy Something Now and Hold It For 18 Years, What Would It Be?
    Dec 17, 2024 – 28:53
  • Everyone Wants Their Money to Come Home with Russell Napier
    Dec 13, 2024 – 38:07
  • Oman Leapfrogs London, Pension Funds and Private Assets, Executive Pay
    Dec 12, 2024 – 19:01
  • What are the Financial Benefits of Getting Married ? 
    Dec 11, 2024 – 18:38
  • Saxo’s 'Outrageous' Forecast Sees Trump Blowing Up the Dollar
    Dec 6, 2024 – 33:47
Recent Reviews
  • moving on-missu
    Good discussion
    Your global flat taxer was out of her depth and should be avoided as a guest. But interesting. Let’s talk more about the future- smart relaxed discussion
  • Balancingthebooks
    From an American Big 4 Auditor
    Great show however, why do you always say you will put the link in the show notes, but never do? Doesn’t tie out you know. Nonetheless, thank you for the value.
  • pmsgoog
    Less English more Scottish
    Can you let your guests speak more? You basically spoke more than Kwasi did. Also let the Scot speak more, he’s pretty witty and insightful.
  • DN4486
    Steen Jakobsen is a sociopath
    What a ludicrous interview. Never should have had him on.
  • ssikdksd
    Love love
    Love love
  • Sammi1974
    Hate new format
    It used to be a great show but now you have to pay to subscribe to hear the commentary and opinions. It’s just guests talking blandly about whatever with no pushback from Merryn because that’s behind the paywall. I can hear Cathy Wood’s advert for her ETF anywhere. Not worth listening too
  • Mark881021095
    Get her a better microphone!
    For real she sounds like she’s in a large empty room. There’s such good technology for this and I don’t understand how the Bloomberg team doesn’t hear it. Be better Bloomberg. She’s solid though.
  • Scott from Sab Diego
    Love this!
    Merryn offers a terrific insight on a wide range of subjects that we all can benefit from. Her guests are thoughtful intelligent leaders in their field and a pure pleasure to listen to! As an added bonus she brought in the brilliant John Stepek. Thanks for your pod!
  • Steven (Willoughby, Ohio)
    Glad I found this podcast!
    This is a fantastic podcast for the retail investor who wants to be more informed about the markets. Each episode I’ve listened to so far has provided new nuggets for me to consider in my investing journey. She puts the topic of the podcast into perspective for you each week and gives you the context you need. Hearing a UK perspective is so refreshing! Merryn is a gem!
  • Odysseus Tied
    One of the Two Best Bloomberg Podcasts
    It’s one of the two best Bloomberg podcasts. Yes, that’s a high compliment because I personally rank this right up there with Bloomberg’s outstanding flagship “Surveillance” show/podcast. Yes, I like MTM better than Odd Lots. Merryn Somerset Webb is outstanding. She reminds me of a British, female version of the inestimable Tom Keene from the Surveillance show; to wit: smart
  • trillionshelper
    EXCELLENT & INTELLIGENT
    Thank you for your brilliant podcast—-so refreshing to hear intelligent, informed, thought-provoking and useful conversations on the world of finance. Many thanks!
  • StephenMegaNow
    Journalism at its finest, Merryn is and has been essential to understanding our crazy world.
    Merryn is and always has been a courageous journalist. She goes to the edge of acceptable reason and peers over asking clear questions. Money week and the FT are poorer for losing her. I am delighted to see this new podcast abd will promote it to staff and clients alike. Sadly much of her writings will be behind a paywall and thus less accessible to the public, at a time when her insights are most needed. I met her recently at a Money Week conference in London and she was brilliant to listen to and ran the show with ease. Bravo. S
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