Inflation is stuck at 8.7% - WTF happens now?  ⚠️ Bank of England meets tomorrow, expected to raise interest rates to at least 4.75% - with more likely to come 📈 Prices rising, mortgage rates rising - we're certainly feeling the pressure 🤯 What are you doing to prepare?

Focussing on whether we are or are not entering a recession, ie the economy having two consecutive quarters of negative numerical growth, doesn't address the fact that real people's living standards are going backwards.

Today’s #financielletimes 👉🏼 Lower energy price cap came into effect yesterday, saving typical household £430 on energy bill 👉🏼 Mortgage “help” measures agreed Fri; options of 6 mth interest only / extend term = lower payments / hold off repossessions during Y1 / protect credit

It could take another 131 years to close the global gender gap, according to the Gender Gap Index (which measures parity across the economy, politics, health, and education). In the US alone, women have lost ~$61T to the pay gap since the 1960s.

Half of older adults who left work in 2020-21 ended up in relative poverty (Institute for Fiscal Studies Joseph Rowntree Foundation). Whilst Covid clearly impacted these figures, it does beg the question: Will you be retiring comfortably, or retiring into poverty? #pension #retirement #investing

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That she was! Talking the new fab book. Loved the needs vs wants chat Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 - getting it for the kids this summer 💰 And Matt Allwright I suspect we'll be like ships that pass on BBC Morning Live with our topics 👀 but would be great to have coffee sometime ☕

Every payday is an opportunity to move towards your goals. Are you going to let your money wander aimlessly, or tell it exactly where you want it to go 👀

Looking forward to speaking here today 🫶

Beckie Taylor @essentialise Kim Diep 6. #ActionNotWords | Let’s talk money! 💰 “Make sure you’re being paid what you deserve!” ✨Welcoming to the stage, Laura Pomfret! Practical advice on how to get that promotion and raise that you deserve. Laura

#TodayAtSiftedISpokeWith David Fogel of Alma Angels. Ella Goldner of Zinc. Laura of Financielle - Budgeting App 📱 (photo below). @HaileyEustaceUK of Commplicated (photobomb below). Nadav Mordechai of Elsewhen. James Roycroft-Davis of Vulnerable Podcast. Jen of MyArk.

There’s an invidious ‘tech bro’ culture in AI – what the sector needs is women, writes Labour MP Harriet Harman (Harriet Harman) #AI #technology #ArtificialIntelligence independent.co.uk/voices/ai-tech…

We’re excited for our #LetsTalkSmallBusiness Zoom event tonight at 8pm! Join Rushanara Ali MP 💙 Patricia Hamzahee, Laura & Claire Reynolds for a feminist conversation on why women are underrepresented within small business &how a The Labour Party govt could help: lwn.org.uk/lets_talk_smal…