Britain's £135 Billion Premium Bonds Delusion | Jordan Walker #229

14.3 million people in the UK hold premium bonds and have never won a single prize. Not £25. Not once.

That stat sent Jordan down a rabbit hole this week, and what he found underneath it is worse. 23 million people hold £135 billion in premium bonds, making it the UK's most popular savings product — while the average prize winner is sitting on around £23,400 and 94% of £1 million jackpot winners held over £10,000 in bonds. Then there's the bigger problem: £610 billion of long-term UK cash with no job to do at all.

Premium Bonds Article: https://bitcoincollective.co/blog/premium-bonds-why-winning-feels-like-losing

In this solo episode:

 • Where premium bonds came from in 1956, and why ERNIE has a Bletchley Park connection

 • The Freedom of Information request that revealed who never wins

 • Why even winning can still be losing once you account for purchasing power

 • How premium bonds became the cheapest borrowing the state has

 • The £610 billion sitting idle, and why the UK has the lowest investing rate in the G7

Chapters:

00:00 Why premium bonds sent me down a rabbit hole

00:55 1956: ERNIE, Colossus and a "squalid raffle"

02:00 The UK's most popular savings product

02:55 Two thirds have never won a prize

03:40 Why the wins go to the already wealthy

04:35 Even winning is losing

06:15 The cheapest borrowing the state has

07:30 £610 billion with no job to do

09:15 Rates rose and Britain saved harder

11:15 8% vs 33% — and why I talk about Bitcoin

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