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
- Sep 16, 2026 · 24 minSurplus-income gifts offer a route around inheritance taxPlanned pension-tax changes could increase the value of estates, making regular gifts from genuinely surplus income more consequential.
- Sep 14, 2026 · 42 minGlobal supply chains hide strategic risks in everyday goodsThe episode examines whether efficiency-driven trade has left economies vulnerable—and whether resilience justifies paying more for domestic production.
- Sep 11, 2026 · 34 minUK bond yields expose a widening fiscal squeezeThe episode connects stubborn UK yields to defence spending, energy risks and constrained government finances while testing whether AI enthusiasm has become speculative.
- Sep 8, 2026 · 54 minAdam Smith’s warnings meet debt, corporate power and AI speculationThe panel tests Smith’s ideas about debt, public extravagance and concentrated power against financial repression, geopolitical risk and the UK’s economic choices.
- Sep 4, 2026 · 58 minBond turmoil exposes the limits of political controlThe panel connects debt, taxation, financial repression and AI disruption to a common question: how much can governments reshape markets before consequences compound.
- Sep 2, 2026 · 44 minAdam Smith’s lessons for AI, markets and investor riskThe panel connects Smith’s ideas about human behavior and trust to modern investing, artificial intelligence, market intervention and public debt.
- Aug 28, 2026 · 14 minNvidia’s growth forecast meets skepticism over AI financeThe episode examines whether markets are questioning AI’s funding model and valuations rather than the technology itself, while broader debt and asset risks build.