Every now and again I receive news and articles about new products and offers people would like me to mention in my blog.
This one’s actually a pretty good idea and will do it’s bit towards keeping the economy going and saving people money at the same time, bonus!
An app that sends you vouchers to your [...]

I don’t have an iPhone. I know people who do but I am used to having a half decent camera with a flash on my phone and I couldn’t convince myself that all the other features of the iPhone outweighed the lack of a decent camera.
So I went for the HTC HD2 which some people have [...]

And so it is that the world we live in has reached an historic turning point.
This is a matter of such Global proportions that no living soul can ignore it and maintain a clean conscience.
Consumerism and capitalism have failed us all and so as a RACE we must make a decision.
Do we wait for our [...]

The Bank of England recently warned that economic recovery could be slow.
That much is not in dispute. The banks and government of the UK have seen to that (thanks by the way).
But when and how a recovery will take place is still very uncertain and I’m not an expert on the subject so I can’t [...]

I’ve been given a copy of a new book entitled 1000 CEOs from DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
I have also been allocated 5 copies to give away!

(image links to DK.com page about the book)
 
The book features reviews of 1000 CEOs (as you might expect!) detailing their success, a snippet of how they achieved great fame, fortune [...]

Something that is becoming increasingly more frequent and I’m sure annoys the hell out of plenty of people, including me are ‘automated’ cold calls.
Recorded messages offering to write off all my debt are the most frequent but to be honest I don’t listen to more than a couple of words before putting the phone down [...]

‘The recession is over, according to one of the nation’s most respected economic think-tanks.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/analysts-the-recession-has-ended-1702147.html
Phew! Thank goodness for that!
And there was everyone thinking it was going to be deep, nasty and a long slow recovery!
The first paragraph of the Independent story reads:
‘The UK’s surprising resilience is confirmed by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research [...]

There are varying predictions about the direction house prices will go in the coming months and years.
Predictions range from up by 25% over the next 5 years (according to the National Housing Federation) to down 50% by 2011 (according to Houepricecrash.co.uk)
It’s possible to approximate the anticipated extent of the house price crash by analysing graphs of [...]

There are numerous places on the internet where historical Base Rate information can be found but I recently discovered a page on a site that shows the Bank of England base rate trends since 1997 in a nice and simple rate graph.
Did you know in 1998 rates were as high as 7.5%?
…and in 2002 rates [...]

I’ve just read an article on popular UK personal finance site www.thisismoney.co.uk with the headline ‘The House That Lost 40% in Four Months‘.
Sounds ominous doesn’t it.
The headline suggests that a house has decreased by 40% in value in just four months.
But it hasn’t!
Firstly, house prices you see in estate agents are not usually the prices buyers [...]