Noise Cancelling with Neil Woodford
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Stamp Duty Has Quietly Doubled. That's Why Britain Stopped Moving
October 2, 2026 · 34 minStamp duty on a typical UK house move has roughly doubled in 20 years without a single rate rise, and the number of homeowners moving house with a mortgage has more than halved. The government's new Your First Home scheme is aimed at…
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Britain Borrowed £3.5bn Too Much. So Why Did Borrowing Get Cheaper?
September 25, 2026 · 32 minUK gilt yields fell on the day Britain found out it had borrowed £3.5bn more than planned. So what is really setting the cost of UK government borrowing? Neil Woodford and Jon Adair look past the "Truss moment" headlines at what gilt…
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AI Could Take Your Job by 2030. Where Does The Money Go?
September 18, 2026 · 40 minWill AI take your job? Anthropic's economic scenarios model says AI could make the US economy 30% bigger by 2030 and put 1 in 5 knowledge workers out of work. Neil Woodford runs the model live and shows who gets the money when AI does the…
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UK Inflation Will Stay at 3% — Here’s Why the Market Is Wrong
September 4, 2026 · 38 minUK inflation is falling while oil is up 35% and gilt yields are at an 18-year high. Neil Woodford explains why the 4-5% inflation forecasts are wrong again, what is actually in the CPI basket, and why the bond market may be pricing the…
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Britain’s Productivity Crisis: A Great Deception?
August 28, 2026 · 32 minIs the UK's productivity crisis actually real? The ONS has quietly admitted its Labour Force Survey overstated UK employment, and the HMRC tax data tells a completely different story about the UK economy, your taxes and interest rates. In…
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The 7 Decisions Every Investor Faces (Part 1)
August 21, 2026 · 32 minNeil Woodford has been answering questions about investing for 35 years – and every one of them comes down to seven decisions. In part one of this three-part series, Neil and Jon Adair cover the funnel: the three decisions that take you…
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One Banking Rule Locked a Generation Out of Housing. What Happens When It Goes?
August 14, 2026 · 28 minBritain's housing crisis is a myth. Neil Woodford has run money for over 35 years, and in this episode he tests the UK housing market's most repeated story against 55 years of data: mortgage payments as a share of take-home pay are close…
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Britain Doesn't Have an Inequality Problem
August 7, 2026 · 34 minIs UK wealth inequality actually rising? Wes Streeting calls inequality "the fracture running through modern Britain", and the coming budget leans on the same story. Neil Woodford has spent weeks in the data, and it says something very…