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My Instinct Is To Assume That We Consumers Are An Inconsistent Bunch. We Like Competition If It Delivers Low Prices, But Grumble If It Delivers The Bad News That Prices Need To Go Up.

I Rarely Come Away From Presenting The 'today' Programme Without Some Sense Of Regret. There Is Always Some Question That I Should Have Asked, Or Some Point That I Should Have Made. This Is Annoying But Not Surprising. Perfection Is Hard To Achieve In A Three-hour Live Programme.

We All Know That Americans Love Their Statistics - In Sport, Obviously. And In Finance Too.

The Two Questions That Anyone Ever Asks Me Are: 'are House Prices Going To Go Down?' And 'is It A Good Time To Fix My Mortgage Rate?'

I Swing Both Ways. I Can See Things From A Kind Of Conservative Point Of View And From A More Socially Liberal Or Left-wing Point Of View.