Welcome to This Is Money podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and in this New Year special, I'm looking back at how we reported some of the big stories of the year with editor Simon Lambert, plus Lee Boyce, Helen Crane and Tanya Jeffries.

From rising inflation, the mad housing market, Rishi's budget, Simon's biggest investing mistakes and how much Lee reckons he'll spend in a lifetime.

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the app. But first, mistakes. We all make them, but do we admit to them as much as we should?

Investing mistakes can be among the toughest to swallow and own up to. But looking at where we went wrong and learning from it is an important part of long-term investing.

The GameStop saga in January got Simon thinking.

Well, I should start by saying that this is resolutely not another slot about GameStop.

I'm sure people have read and heard plenty about GameStop over the past week.

We did a whole podcast on it last week, which brought a reasonable amount of criticism for some of the things we said.

However, suffice it to say that the price of GameStop that had been pushed up by the Reddit-fueled trading frenzy to more than $400 a week ago is now at $53.

So if you bought in anywhere near that peak last week and in the frenzy, then you are likely

to have lost money.

You might have made money, you might have sold out

a higher price, but there was a lot of talk of holding the line, diamond hands, all that kind of

stuff. And anybody who did get involved near the end and did so in order to make a quick buck,

and there will be plenty of people who did that, where the line lies on fighting the system

of making a quick buck is highly debatable.

But there will be plenty of people who thought they make a quick buck

and plenty of people who possibly shoved in more money than they should have done

because that's always the temptation to make a quick buck.

And some of them will be sitting on sizable paper losses

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