Jasmine Birtles
Your money-making expert. Financial journalist, TV and radio personality.
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Ruby Layram
24th Mar 2025
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Episode 13: Are Trump’s Tariffs Crashing the Markets on Purpose?
Are Trump’s tariffs a clever move to lower interest rates — or a fast track to economic collapse? Tim Price from Price Value Partners breaks down how tariffs impact bonds, inflation, debt, gold, and markets. Jasmine Birtles and Tim Price unpack the chaos hitting global markets. From the $37 trillion U.S. debt and foreign sell-offs in Treasuries, to the strategic pivot toward gold and trend-following funds, this episode explains what it all means for long-term investors, pensions, and global economic stability.
Episode 12: Immigration, Debt and Demographics – The Economic Time Bomb
The global economy is more fragile than it looks. With mounting debt, aging populations, shrinking workforces and creeping state control over your finances, we may be heading for a worldwide reckoning. In this episode of MoneyMagpie Invest, Jasmine Birtles is joined by Nick Hubble from Southbank Investment to unpack the hard truths no one wants to admit. They explore the illusion of GDP growth, the economic consequences of immigration policy, and why pensions, gold and crypto are no longer safe from political interference.
Bonus Episode: Britain’s Benefit System is Breaking – And No One’s Ready
Council tax has doubled. Water bills are up 29%. Energy prices have risen again. But benefits like Universal Credit have barely moved. In this episode of MoneyMagpie Invest, Jasmine Birtles talks to Andrew Sykes from the Noah’s Ark Debt Advice Centre in Halifax about the brutal reality facing low-income households this April.
Episode 11: The Real Reason the Rich Are Ditching Banks For Gold
Gold investing is surging in the UK as banks tighten controls, digital currency fears rise, and Labour’s tax plans shake investor confidence. In this episode of MoneyMagpie Invest, Jasmine Birtles speaks with Harry Thorne, founder of Bullion Club, about why demand for gold sovereigns has skyrocketed since Labour came to power.
Episode 10: BOLD Choices – Why This Fund Only Holds Bitcoin & Gold
In Episode 10 of the Money Magpie Invest Podcast, Jasmine speaks to Charlie Morris, founder of ByteTree and creator of the BOLD Fund — a unique investment fund made up of just Bitcoin and gold. We discuss how the BOLD Fund works, why it was created, and how a 3:1 ratio of gold to Bitcoin has delivered outstanding returns with lower volatility.
Episode 9: Joshua Raymond from XTB
This week, MoneyMagpie founder Jasmine Birtles is joined by Joshua Raymond, British Managing Director of XTB. XTB is an investment platform designed to offer a wide range of investment solutions for everyone, no matter whether your investment horizons are short, medium or long term.
Episode 8: Clive Thompson Wealth Manager
What is the UK’s current debt to GDP level? What does this mean for your money now and how to protect your wealth in the future?
This week Jasmine speaks to Clive Thompson, retired wealth manager with over 47 years experience. If you’ve got any more questions, reach out out to Clive on LinkedIn below or head on over to MoneyMagpie.com.
Episode 7: Steve Webb and The State Pension
This week Jasmine is joined by former Pensions Minister, Steve Webb to discuss the issue of the state pension going forward and how we’re going to fund it.
Episode 6: Susie Violet Ward, Bitcoin Policy UK
How do we integrate Bitcoin into the UK economy? Why is the city against Bitcoin?
Join Jasmine this week as she chats to Susie Violet Ward, CEO of think tank, Bitcoin Policy UK on why we need to see financial innovation in the UK and what we can do about it now.
Episode 5: John Butler Southbank Investment
What does Trump’s presidency mean for our money in the UK? This week, Jasmine speaks to John Butler, Investment Director at Southbank Investment Researcher, on how the Trump administration will impact the UK stock market, Bitcoin and gold. As an everyday investor in the UK, what should you be doing with your money? Listen to find out.
Episode 4: Charles Goodman, Coinjar
What does Trump’s presidency mean for Bitcoin? Can we expect to see growth on growth for the next four years?
In the fourth episode of MoneyMagpie Invest, Jasmine Birtles speaks to Charles Goodman, Client Manager at CoinJar, about starting to invest in crypto.
Episode 3: Steve Baker, Former Conservative MP
The UK government is spending more than it earns and the debt mountain is growing. Now that the cost of borrowing has gone up, the government will have to find another £28bn to service the debt each year.
Even without that extra cost, the fact that we are an ageing population with, now, more people taking from the State than paying into it, the days of benefits, state pension, free healthcare and other services that we have come to expect from the State, are numbered
That’s the view of Steve Baker, former Conservative MP, who has calculated that we have only another 15-20 years of money left to pay out in benefits.
Episode 2: Andrew Foster Bullion Club
Gold is going up and up which is good news for those of us who have been investing in it for a while. It’s particularly good news for those who have gold sovereigns in their portfolio. Not only are sovereigns a handy way to keep your gold, but they are also tax-free investments.
We spoke to Andrew from one of our sponsors, Bullion club, who said not only do you avoid paying VAT when you buy them but you also avoid Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell them for a profit as they are considered to be legal tender!
So if you’re interested, see what Andrew says about how to make the most of that extra tax-saving element. Don’t forget to share this with anyone you know who’s looking for a tax-efficient investment.
Episode 1: Tim Price Shares Some Home Truths
In this first MoneyMagpie Invest Podcast, Jasmine Birtles interviews Tim Price from Price Value Partners who explains how close we are to a massive crash in the Bond Market. As this market is far, far bigger than the stock market the reverberations will be enormous. Already we are seeing it creaking as yields go up for the UK government, adding billions to the already large debt burden. What will that mean for our savings, investments and pensions?
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