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On today's podcast:
(1) European gas prices hit a 17-month high as LNG workers in Australia vote to strike.

(2) Disney raises prices for some streaming subscriptions by as much as 27%.

(3) Britain's property market shows more signs of slowing to a crawl.

(4) The chair of troubled Chinese property developer Country Garden sees her net worth drop by $28.6 billion from its peak. 

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Sure, you were “in love.” But economists — using evidence from Bridgerton to Tinder — point to what’s called “assortative mating.” And it has some unpleasant consequences for society.

House prices move in an 18 year cycle. That is the theory of Fred Harrison, who used his cycle to forecast the 2008 slump after the financial crisis. 

If his theory holds, the housing market will have a short wobble this year and next, followed by a final sharp rise in prices to 2025.

Does that stand up to scrutiny? Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost discuss the 28 year property cycle on this excerpt from the This is Money podcast.

How quickly does the Bank of England think that the base rate will rise after its first move up? Simon Lambert looks at the figures and outlines the good, the bad and the awkward, in this excerpt from the This is Money podcast.