Category Archives: Finance
Does grandpa still hide his gold under the bed…?
Sometimes you have to wonder these days if under-the-bed is the best place for your money, so many people have been bitten by the recession-bug. People are still looking for better ways to invest though and I doubt that the serious investors have been scared off completely from the money market; even the mums-and-dads are [...]
Removing the middle man from marketing.
For almost sixty years we have been induced to behave as consumers solely through the medium of television. There is no doubt as to the power that television advertising has wielded and the enormous influence it has held over our lives in all this time but times change and even the TV is now having [...]
Budget 2010 the message is simple – off your bum and find a job, the benefits gravy train is pulling to a halt.
Call it whatever you will: the budget-we-had-to-have or the budget-that-13-years-of-wilful-Labour-spending-made-necessary…but the overriding message is perfectly clear – the benefits gravy train that so many enjoyed a free ride on for so long and for doing so little has come to an end.
And about bloody time too!
It is a tough budget but for those who are [...]
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