This is 2025: What happened to our finances and the economy this year
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Investors have had a good year but there was certainly some twists and turns along the way.
The economy started off strong and then began to stutter, interest rates came down by a full percentage point and inflation spiked again.
Meanwhile, the most hotly anticipated Budget turned out to be not as bad as it could have been but has not gone down well with businesses and taxpayers.
On this final 2025 episode of the This is Money podcast, Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert take a quick ride through this year and what it meant for our finances.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
Producer: Georgie Frost
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. I'm Georgie Frost and |
| 0:07.0 | joining me today is Simon Lambert for an end of year wrap-up. We'll run the rule over the |
| 0:12.0 | government's financial efforts this year, the good, the bad and the frozen. Plus, the state of the |
| 0:17.1 | economy, interest rates continued to fall. Inflation proved sticky and growth, |
| 0:21.7 | but has been pretty underwhelming. Better news for mortgage holders, but the property market |
| 0:25.6 | remained sluggish. Not like the footsie, it's been a knockout year against the backdrop |
| 0:30.7 | of an impending AI crash. Plus, another big compensation scandal rumbled on. Don't forget |
| 0:36.7 | you to upstate with all the latest breaking money news. |
| 0:38.8 | Just go to this ismoney.co.com. |
| 0:40.3 | UK or download the app. |
| 0:42.3 | But first, a message from our sponsors. |
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| 1:07.5 | Go on get answers you can trust and remember investment involves risk. Now back to the |
| 1:12.0 | show. From a 40 billion pound tax package last autumn build as a one and done to winter fuel |
| 1:19.0 | and IHT U turns after pensioner and farmer backlashes and another tax raising budget, albeit more |
| 1:25.1 | stealthily, this was a year where fiscal discipline repeatedly collided |
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