A vision of our financial future

Money Box

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4.2 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

2020 has been a tumultuous year, full of the unexpected, so what can we anticipate for our finances over the years to come?

In 1998 futurologist Graeme Leach wrote a report for Barclays called ’2020 Vision’, designed to look beyond the impending millennium to life in the next 20 years. It wanted to stimulate thinking and discussion on how the future will look.

Join Felicity Hannah to discover how Graeme’s predictions for 2020 have weathered and discuss with three listeners what their hopes and aspirations are for the next 20 years, what have been their successes and failures from the last 20, and what lessons can be learnt.

Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon

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0:45.4	Hello and happy new year from the whole moneybox team.
0:50.5	Today we're going to look at how much our lives and finances have changed in the last 20 years and ask what the next two decades might mean for our money.
0:54.4	Back in the year 2000, the Bank of England base rate was around 6%.
0:58.5	The average home cost around £90,000, and this was at number one.
1:03.1	Oh, baby, baby.
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1:11.6	Got a lost in the game.
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1:15.6	And also two decades ago,
1:19.6	forecasters at the Henley Centre and Barclays published a report called 2020 Vision,
1:25.6	a series of predictions for what our finances and lives might be like
1:29.7	in the year 2020. Graham Leach was one of the futurologists behind that report. He now runs
1:35.2	the consultancy Macronomics and joins us today. Graham, hello. Hello. Thank you for inviting me.
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