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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why Jackson Hole is vital this year

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why Jackson Hole is vital this year
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor tells Simon Rose why the Jackson Hole central bank symposium in Wyoming is so important this year and what we might expect Fed Chair Jay Powell to say. With the severity of inflation a major driver of markets, we can expect them to be jittery for some time. In the UK, the new price cap will have a big effect on the CPI numbers.
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Victoria Scholar


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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Inflation & Interest Rates, Retailers & Darktrace

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Inflation & Interest Rates, Retailers & Darktrace
Danni Hewson of A J Bell discusses the latest inflation numbers with Simon Rose (with reference to her early record collection) and what might yet happen with interest rates. While many retailers are under pressure, she points out that life is different for those at the luxury end of the market. She discusses the bid, finally, for Ted Baker and what is probably the start of a massive bidding war for cybersecurity company Darktrace. She points out how cheap the UK market is for American investors and explains why it is so difficult growing complicated tech firms within the UK.
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Danni Hewson


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The Business of Film: Nope, Man Without A Star & Prey

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Nope, Man Without A Star & Prey
James Cameron-Wilson reflects on the UK box office down for the 3rd week with a loss of 26%. Jordan Peele's "deliciously strange" Nope, starring Daniel Kaluuya, is at #1 with a take of £1.9m. James's DVD of the week is the Blu-Ray release of King Vidor's 1955 Western Man Without A Star, starring Kirk Douglas. And on Disney+ he found Prey a feminist action thriller which, although better than the rest of the franchise, ultimately just becomes another Predator film.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, warning all Zoom users they should update the app. He links it to Wordle, where there are now books and poems. There's also a car park machine that only talks Welsh, a funeral where guests could quiz the deceased, problems with Meta's chatbot, the physicist who convinced people chorizo was a star, woodless pencils, three different stories about robot dogs and a paper battery that is biodegradable.
Guest:

Steve Caplin


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The Bigger Picture: A-levels, Inflation & Who Is Governing Britain?

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: A-levels, Inflation & Who Is Governing Britain?
As the first proper A-level results arrive since 2019, political commentator Mike Indian explains how education must be the answer to solving the UK's productivity puzzle. In the wake of the latest rise in inflation, he says that targeted support and state intervention will be needed to get things back onto an even keel. And with the Tory leadership contest continuing, he asks where the big, transformative ideas are and wonders if an absent Boris Johnson is simply abrogating responsibility.
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Mike Indian


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The Bigger Picture: Curing Basketcase Britain, The Commonwealth Games & Immigration Thriving Post-Brexit

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Curing Basketcase Britain, The Commonwealth Games & Immigration Thriving Post-Brexit
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University explains why bold market reform is needed to solve the problems of "basketcase Britain", before it is too late. He reflects on the success of the Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, particularly the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies and considers where the future of the Games – and the Commonwealth – might lie. And he shows how immigration is thriving in the wake of Brexit though points out that infrastructure planning must be tackled seriously and quickly.
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Professor Tim Evans


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The Business Of Film: Bullet Train, Luck & 13 Lives

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The Business Of Film

The Business Of Film: Bullet Train, Luck & 13 Lives
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the UK box office chart, with takings down 20% week-on-week. At #1 is tongue-in-cheek thriller Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, but it only took £2.9m in an extended weekend. With no other new films, James turned to streaming services. On Apple+ is Skydance Animation's Luck, with the voices of Simon Pegg and others. At times delightful, it ends up being a mixed bag, says James. He was more positive about Amazon Prime's 13 Lives in which director Ron Howard tells the true story of the cave rescue of a group of Thai schoolboys. Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell are among the cast.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Financial Outlook For Personal Investors: US inflation, UK GDP and political uncertainty

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook For Personal Investors: US inflation, UK GDP and political uncertainty
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor explains why markets viewed the lastest US inflation numbers – softening to 8.5% – so positively. She discusses what might be expected from the UK's GDP figures. She explains why the current political uncertainty in the UK – with the two very different approaches espoused by the candidates – is making the country a difficult place to invest, suggesting that, for the time being, UK markets are in a holding pattern.
Guest:

Victoria Scholar


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of plans to create jet fuel from sunlight. Students have built an e-car that sucks CO2 from the air, there's a tech mattress to help with sleep, Google's new AR glasses, a way to use dead spiders to lift tiny objects, a wearable fitness tracker that detects Covid 2 days before symptoms appear and a faster, more efficient way to dig tunnels - with a big catch.
Guest:

Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, giving us the top theme park artificial smells, including rotting flesh, penguin vomit and Kylie Minogue's breath. In addition, there are motors made of DNA, how small-wheeled scooters can be made more stable, reusable coffee pods, car wheels able to turn 80 degrees, replacing microplastics with silk and an affordable electric bike.
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Steve Caplin


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