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Gadgets & Gizmos: Curing wrinkles with fish guts, remote control endoscopies & the iPhone 16

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Curing wrinkles with fish guts, remote control endoscopies & the iPhone 16
Tech maven Steve Caplin says that South Korean scientists have discovered that fish guts can inhibit the effects of ageing. Swiss doctors performed a remote endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong. Tartrazine can make skin transparent. Apple's new iPhone will appeal particularly to those keen on photography and has clever new auto-generated emojis. There's a keenly-priced new photography drone. Honda are making a foldable generator which will either charge your EV or turn into a mini motorbike. And the World Heath Organisation have proven that there really is no link between mobile phones and cancer.
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Steve Caplin


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Simon Rose

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why so many gold miners are being bid for

Simon Rose
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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why so many gold miners are being bid for
In the wake of the AngloGold Ashanti bid for Centamin at 1.7x price/book value, Russ Mould of A J Bell explains why so many gold miners are being bid for. Russ points out that gold mining shares are at an all-time low compared to the gold price. And gold itself is no more expensive relative to equities than it was when Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard. Combined with the fact that utiities are the top US performing sector, perhaps it indicates that, after 16 years of an extreme monetary exeriment, investors are expecting something nasty to crawl out of the woodwork.
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Russ Mould


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Gavin Oldham

Thought for the Week: Falling birth rates unsettle the Vatican

Gavin Oldham
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Thought for the Week

Thought for the Week: Falling birth rates unsettle the Vatican
Pope Francis calls for more focus on children, suggesting that in many countries pets take preference. If the hard-won values of gender equality are to benefit generations well into the future, western democracies need to help young people towards family formation. His comments may have been prompted by the collapse in Italian fertility rates to just 1.3 birth per woman: well below the 2.1 needed for a stable population. Background music: 'Young And Old Know Love' Puddle of Infinity

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Georgie Frost

This Is Money: The way to beat inheritance tax (but what's the catch?)

Georgie Frost
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This is Money

This Is Money: The way to beat inheritance tax (but what's the catch?)
Inheritance tax punches above it s weight. It is paid by only a small minority of estates, yet manages to be Britain's most hated tax and its most controversial. Some believe it's immoral double taxation and should be axed altogether, others say crank it up - and somewhere in the middle there are many people who feel that taking 40% is just too much. But it's also a tax that even those with an expensive home and plenty of savings can generally avoid if they choose, by spending more and giving more away in their lifetime. The problem is that they need to survive seven years or they may get caught by some very outdated gifting allowances. Yet, there is a little-known loophole that allows people to give away considerably more without worrying about the seven-year rule. Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert look at inheritance tax and the surplus income rule. They discuss this trick to beat death duties and the catches it comes with and all the other rules surrounding IHT. Also — noisy heat pumps, the British ISA meets its maker and our failure to support the high streets that we moan about dying.

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Adam Cox

Modern Mindset: Steven Truman on Dangerous Cladding

Adam Cox
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Modern Mindset

Modern Mindset: Steven Truman on Dangerous Cladding
Adam is Cox is joined by Steven Truman from Cladding Consulting. After the Grenfell report this week, Steven talks to Adam all about cladding remediation and the outcomes that could be useful to for people who live on these properties. https://www.claddingconsulting.co.uk/
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Steven Truman


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Simon Rose

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Rightmove & Barratt Developments

Simon Rose
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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Rightmove & Barratt Developments
Neil Shah of Edison Group takes a look at two housing-related stocks. Rightmove has surged on talk of a bid. It's a jewel of a stock with something like 80% of the online estate agency market. This shows yet again how overseas investors consider the UK market undervalued. Neil believes Rightmove's model has amazing potential for AI. He also discusses Barratt Developments, which has just produced a tough set of full year results with profits down 75%. However, the mood music for the future is much more positive and there's a bit of a turnaround. While there's uncertainty over what the Budget will bring, Labour's desire to ramp up housebuilding could see them well placed.
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Neil Shah


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Simon Rose

The Business of Film: AfrAId, The Deliverance & The Union

Simon Rose
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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: AfrAId, The Deliverance & The Union
James Cameron-Wilson laments box office declining 30% despite National Cinema Day. The only new film is AI horror AfrAId at #10 with a family at the mercy of a digital assistant. Although slammed by critics, James found it nuanced and horrifically believable. He also watched faith-based horror The Deliverance on Netflix which features Glenn Close. Although not a great film, it still delivers a frightfest. James thinks that spy thriller The Union, also on Netflix and starring Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg, might be one of those films so bad that it's good. He found it absurdly diverting.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Underground nuclear power stations, water cremation & biohybrid computing

Simon Rose
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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Underground nuclear power stations, water cremation & biohybrid computing
Steve Caplin discusses the astronauts whose space stay of 8 days has turned into 8 months. Nuclear power could be safer if the power stations are buried one mile underground. Water cremation is coming to the UK soon. There's an e-ink computer which will work in sunlight – though not for very long. Italian scientists have a humanoid jetpack robot to rescue people on mountains – with a few drawbacks. Ultrasonic joining solves the problem of sticking wood and metal. And biohybrid computing, which already gives robots locusts' ears is now adapting fungi's mycelium root communication to electronics.
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Steve Caplin


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Motley Fool Money

Motley Fool Money: $279 Billion Lost In A Day (4/9)

Motley Fool Money
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Motley Fool Show

Motley Fool Money: $279 Billion Lost In A Day (4/9)
The Department of Justice has some questions about Nvidia’s business. Jason Moser and Ricky Mulvey discuss the subpoena that instigated the chip maker's selloff, a record amount of share repurchases by corporations, and earnings from Dick’s Sporting Goods and Dollar Tree. The, 18 minutes in, Motley Fool contributor Matt Frankel joins Ricky to take a look at real estate brokerages Redfin and Zillow, and discuss what lower interest rates mean for the industry. Companies discussed: NVDA, GS, DKS, WMT, DLTR, RDFN, Z. Host - Ricky Mulvey; Guests - Jason Moser, Matt Frankel.
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Jason Moser, Matt Frankel


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Simon Rose

The Bigger Picture: The Grenfell Tower inquiry, Labour and worker rights and UK arms to Israel

Simon Rose
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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The Grenfell Tower inquiry, Labour and worker rights and UK arms to Israel
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the Grenfell Tower inquiry report which damns governments and the private sector and discusses what has to happen next. Labour's push on workers' rights is, he says, the biggest change in employment law for 40 years. Its ambition is radical but it is a ragbag of measures with no unity of thought behind it. He also considers the part suspension of arms sales of Israel and the complexity of such decisions.
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Mike Indian


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