Odd Mixture News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

flanders and claire barrett. we have got stephanie flanders from bloomberg economics on the podcast. hello. hello, hello. and another friend of the podcast, claer barrett, from the financial times. thank you for having me. i'm glad you're here, so, interest rates at 3%, stephanie. gives a sense of how that feeds into real lives. in gives a sense of how that feeds into real lives.— into real lives. in terms of money that _ into real lives. in terms of money that is _ into real lives. in terms of money that is about - into real lives. in terms of money that is about 2 - into real liv...

2 million people in this country who are on a variable rate mortgage who will immediately see the impact of that 0.75% rise we have had today. the biggest since the '80s or '90s depending on who you believe. and for somebody with the average size mortgage, just from today's rise, but of course, that's the eighth rise we have had in succession from the bank of england. there's more pain to come for around 2 million people you roll off their mortgage fixed rates next year. they might see an even bigger rise because they're on a really low rate now and it'll probably be higher than it i...

Recession ever recorded, but then, how deep is it going to be, and interest rates are going up but how high might they get? there is another weirdness about this which is that at the same time that we are talking about a terrible squeeze and a recession, we are not really looking at rising unemployment so what we think is historically associated with a big recession, lots of people losing theirjobs, you are definitely not seeing that. you still have an enormous number of vacancies and not enough people people to fill them. a smaller labour market now, smaller number of people working or even w...

The account of the war effort that united britain and the united states. katty kay, you are there in london today where the president will hold a joint news conference with the prime minister. what's been the feeling on the ground inside london and inside the uk day one and a half now of the president's visit? >> i guess a sigh of relief that it went off okay yesterday in terms of pageantry. the president, of course, arriving and causing a political stir with a scathing attack on the mayor of london, the city that he was about to touchdown in, but in terms of the royal side of things, all of t...

Weeks of preparation paid off. donald trump is seen to have performed the part just fine. there were no massive royal protocols breached. so you had this kind of odd mixture of the president doing the royal part of it well, as he was meant to, and yet politically and diplomatically, causing headlines here and causing controversy here by being so rude about sadiq khan, the mayor of london, just before he landed. officials on both sides of the atlantic keen to say, this is not about donald trump, the president, this is about the american/british relationship, the alliance of the last 75 years si...