Financial Times Forecasts for 2025

Bitcoin hits all-time high again

This year promises to be eventful and pivotal in terms of world economic and political events. What do Financial Times experts predict for 2025?

  • Bitcoin will reach $200,000;
  • AI agents will appear – “software that lives on your phone or web browser and can perform digital tasks on your behalf, from filling out online forms to putting together your grocery cart, sending emails, or decrypting your calls.”
  • Israel and the US will not strike Iran’s nuclear facilities;
  • Trump will start a tariff war, primarily with China;
  • Macron will stay the President of France;
  • Germany will ease its debt brake (Schuldenbremse – a constitutional provision limiting central government borrowing to 0.35% of GDP per year);
  • Musk and Trump will not quarrel.