Merryn Somerset Webb

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Merryn Talks Money · Can Governments Afford These Interest Rates? · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

Okay, so race up in the US rate, not up here.

that's that's part of what is pushing yields up.

So one of the things in the UK is that we look at our

bond yields, guilt yields, and they're higher than other people's.

And everyone says, well, why is that?

And we say, well, it's because we have no plan to deal with Overwell's public debt and it's because we're more prone to inflation than other countries, et cetera.

But also in there is the fact that if you increase the supply of something, obviously you push the price down.

And with bonds you push the price down, the yield goes up.

That's just how it works.

If you take

that supply out of the market, you might expect yield to fall slightly.

Market.

Yeah, and there's plenty of reasons to think that the UK is not going to be better managed going forward than it is at the moment.

And we definitely expect rates to go up over the rest of the year, right?

So we stick at three point three point seven five percent now.

But there's every expectation that it goes up to four and then four point two five, maybe maybe four and a half by the end of the year.

Yeah.

So you've got you've got that coming.

And we know that inflation is probably gonna push up, what is it, just over three now, push up over four.

that lasts, the more likely it is that rates have to keep rising.

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