The State we’re in: could higher pay for nurses and scrapping university fees boost the economy?
Nurses have had their pay cut every year for the last five years. Students are coming out of our universities with the highest level of debt in the West – higher on average than the USA. Rents are tot...
7 Jul 201745min
Could interest rates really rise this year and do we need to worry about car loans?
What do you mean you’ve never seen The Big Short?It was nominated for five Oscars, won one and features Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and the part-time stripper with five houses and a condo.Watch it. Now!...
30 Jun 201751min
What are stocks and shares? Introducing Big Money Questions - and a lot of enlightening answers
‘If you've ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow,’ sang British music legends Half Man Half Biscuit, ‘you need butter milk and cheese and an equilateral chain saw. ‘It’s obvious when you know...
23 Jun 201718min
The all new standard of living - and other related problems (and some solutions)
Wherever your heart lies in the debate about Britain’s role in the world, your head cannot escape the fact that we import a lot of what we consume. From the oil and gas that heats our homes and powers...
16 Jun 201748min
Election 2017: Young voters changed the economic game plan - and what the DUP can bring to the party
It was meant to be an election about Brexit but it turned into one about new young voters and what they wanted. They wanted change.What they got was a minority Government, a coalition between the Cons...
9 Jun 201751min
The road to our future looks bright if only we were prepared to pay for it
Would you pay more tax for better health, housing, communications, green spaces, roads, social care, railways, education, defence? Or not? The consensus seems to be that we would if only people felt t...
2 Jun 201723min
Can you trust pensions, social care or anything else?
A row that erupted over the Tory manifesto social care plans led to accusations of a dementia tax and a swift U-turn.Voters had previously been told they would get a cap on costs, but instead they got...
26 Mai 201749min
Which party do you trust with the economy? Tories, Labour and Lib Dem head to head
The manifestos are out, but which political party would you trust with the UK economy?We look at Labour's plan to hike taxes, the Tories' plan to ditch the triple lock and the Lib Dem's plan to make a...
19 Mai 201754min
