Merryn Talks Money
Hosted by Karen Moscow, Merryn Somerset Webb & Nathan Hager · 19 decoded episodes · newest Oct 14, 2026
<p>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.</p>
Episodes 19
- Oct 14, 2026 · 30 minPassive investing’s hidden bet on America and big techMarket-cap-weighted funds may offer low costs while quietly concentrating portfolios in the U.S. and its dominant technology companies.
- Oct 12, 2026 · 1h 7mCommodity investors face a long supply squeezeYears of weak investment may leave energy and raw-material markets vulnerable to prolonged supply constraints, but the cycle still has an eventual limit.
- Oct 9, 2026 · 34 minBond stress exposes governments’ refinancing dilemmaEuropean yields, UK tax choices and concentrated AI optimism all point to the same problem: markets are repricing risk after cheap money.
- Oct 7, 2026 · 43 minMortgage repricing exposes borrowers to a tougher refinancing shockBorrowers face higher payments and difficult housing choices even without a Bank of England base-rate increase.
- Oct 5, 2026 · 50 minWhy smart investors keep making irrational betsThe episode shows how emotion, salience and overconfidence distort decisions, while patience and broader valuation methods can reveal overlooked opportunities.
- Oct 2, 2026 · 26 minPension reform meets bond-market and housing risksThe episode connects politically difficult welfare and social-care reforms with the market consequences of fiscal choices and taxpayer-backed housing support.
- Sep 30, 2026 · 18 minGold’s safety promise meets retirement’s harder trade-offsThe episode separates catastrophe insurance from everyday portfolio decisions, then connects public markets and retirement planning to the same question of balancing risk and opportunity.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 44 minInvestors weigh AI’s boom against its earnings realityThe conversation tests whether AI exposure should mean betting on speculative winners or owning profitable businesses that supply the buildout.
- Sep 25, 2026 · 25 minNarrow gains test the AI boom and global monetary orderThe episode connects concentrated equity gains, uncertain AI returns, mounting European debt and China’s gold buying to wider financial-system risks.
- Sep 23, 2026 · 25 minBuy-to-let shifts from leveraged bet to yield businessBuy-to-let can still generate returns, but taxes, borrowing costs, regulation and weaker reliance on capital growth have changed the calculation for landlords.
- Sep 21, 2026 · 37 minAI rewards adaptable thinkers over narrow career plansAs artificial intelligence changes which tasks people can perform, education and career choices must prepare people to judge, adapt, and keep learning.
- Sep 18, 2026 · 14 minHigher rates expose governments’ debt dilemmaPersistent inflation and rising borrowing costs are forcing governments to confront how they will finance large liabilities without destabilizing markets or currencies.