Podcasts

Labour didn’t win the last General Election but leader Jeremy Corbyn believes it could do next time. In case that comes around anytime soon, the party this week laid out some plans at its conference. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell also revealed that the leadership would be doing war game planning should a Labour victory cause a run on the pound or a stock market slump. Depending on your point of view, this may sound amusing, scary or exciting. But what does it actually mean and should we be worried? Corbyn's plans are pretty radical and would herald a sharp turn in the country's economic direction but should we be worried about the economy as it is now? Perhaps the rumoured Bank of England rate hike is a sign that things are absolutely fine. On this week’s This is Money podcast, Simon Lambert, Georgie Frost and Lee Boyce take a look at whether the UK’s pint glass is half empty or half full – and whether that means you will get richer or poorer.

Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio - direct from Washington DC for news, views and analysis of the US stocks which matter. In this week's show, Nike trips in North America. Roku pops in its Wall Street debut. McCormick reports some appetizing earnings. And the CEO of American Airlines makes a surprising declaration.

Warren Knight is a former dancer who's voted as one of the Top 100 Global Influencers in 2017 for his work in helping small businesses get digitally savvy. His background is in IT; he writes and blogs about his work and is also an international Digital Transformation keynote speaker and coach. He's also a former professional dancer!

Ed Bowsher looks at the outlook for emerging markets. After a strong run in recent years, can the emerging markets bull run continue? Ed asks Rajiv Jain from GQG Partners, David Cornell of the India Capital Growth investment trust, Howie Li of ETF Securities, and Charles St Arnaud of Lombard Odier Investment Managers.

In the latest Money Makers podcast Jonathan Davis returns to talk to a fund manager whose multi-cap equity fund has the distinction, according to research by FE Trustnet, of having outperformed its benchmark in every rolling five year period since 2000 – one of only two funds out of several hundred in the UK All Companies sector to have done so. The fund manager in question is Richard Hallett, whose Marlborough UK Multi-Cap Growth fund, has as its name suggests the freedom to invest across the UK market spectrum, from the Footsie 100 index all the way down to AIM. The fund has returned more than 325% since 2000, when it was originally run by Giles Hargreave, and 295% since 2005 when Richard Hallett took it over. I last caught up with this fund manager just over a year ago, before the Brexit referendum.

Helal Miah of The Share Centre looks back at numbers from TUI, Carnival, Boohoo and Hotel Chocolat and ahead to Tesco, Greggs and Ferguson.

Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University on the Uber ban, Labour and the generational split on Brexit and the strange politics of Theresa May.

Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the Bank of England’s Independence Conference: celebrating 20 years since the Bank of England was granted operational independence on 6th May, 1997.

Steve Caplin discusses why a driver was disguised as a car seat, why your computer might be mining Bitcoin and the pay-as-you-go car.

James Cameron-Wilson reviews top UK film Kingsman: The Golden Circle and The Red Turtle, out for home viewing and laments the loss of Harry Dean Stanton.