Welcome to the imaginatively entitled 'Money with John Rennie' podcast. Today I ask Is Britain going to inflate away its debt problems? While you're pondering that one, I ask whether making stuff is all it's cracked up to be, and I look at the struggles of Guardian readers and writers to cope with the credit crunch. I kid you not, these guys are suffering and I'll be holding a collection at the end of the podcast.

A roundup of financial news from around the UK this week, with a look at Gordon Brown's attempt to emerge well from the recession, a fatal flaw with credit card protection, the return of the carpetbagger and a Council Tax whammy for landlords.