The look back at 2020 and Zoom Christmas taste test episode

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Making predictions can be a mug’s game and never has that proved more true than for any made at the start of 2020.

It’s been an astonishing year, when the lives and freedoms we took for granted were dramatically disrupted – and one where ordering people to stay at home triggered the biggest economic crash in the UK since the Great Frost of 1709.

While looking forward to what might happen in 2020 will have proved fruitless, looking back certainly provides a few things to talk about.

On this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert look back over 2020 and by popular podcast listener demand combine it with the return of a socially-distanced Zoom Christmas taste test.

The team look at the low points, the high points and the bits in the middle of the year that has passed so far – and probably still has more to give.

From the economic nosedive, to the flirtation with negative rates and the stock market and housing market’s surprising buoyancy, they pick through the main issues.

And they look for the stories that provided some light relief, including Britain’s unlikely pandemic spending spree and hot tub boom.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money's festive special podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and alongside me and editor Simon Lambert today is Assistant Editor Lee Boyce.
0:09.0	Alas, another victim of the coronavirus pandemic is our annual festive taste test confined as we are to our own homes.
0:17.1	But fear not, dear listener, being the resourceful bunch that we are, we have a little surprise for you.
0:23.0	A surprise because, quite frankly, as always with these things, who knows how it's going to turn out.
0:28.4	But in theory, at least, we shall be serving up a festive feast of the big news stories of the year,
0:35.2	alongside a taste test quiz effort thing to do play along at home.
0:39.6	We'll be chewing over unsavory items of the year, corona economy, Brexit wranglings and savings rates slashes.
0:47.4	We'll then digest some of the sweetest stories from the year.
0:50.2	This is money's victories for pensioners and the comeback of the Milkman, and we wash it all down with bubbles.
0:56.0	House prices, Bitcoin, the stock market, maybe, and of course hot tubs.
1:00.0	So just sit back at home because, let's be honest, you're probably not allowed to go anywhere else.
1:04.0	Grab a mince pie and some sherry and enjoy our humble offering and advocating.
1:08.0	With all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.co.
1:11.7	com or download the app.
1:14.1	But first up, on the list is our savoury items, or rather unsavory, in terms of news.
1:21.1	And where on earth do we start with this year?
1:23.9	Could you ever have believed at the start of 2020 that there would be a bigger story
1:28.6	than Brexit? Hold my pint, says a brand new virus. I don't need to remind you what happened
1:33.8	from that point on as we are still living it. Instead, I want to take a brief, or let's be honest,
1:39.0	we could be here all day. Look at the state of the economy and the way the government has handled
1:43.5	the situation and where we go from here, all in the context of the economy and the way the government has handled the situation
1:44.2	and where we go from here, all in the context of Brexit. I thought I'd keep it light for the start
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