Feb 19 2008
The news that the huge wave of immigration from Poland is reversing as Poles take their savings back to Poland and start buying homes and building businesses has that unmistakable whiff of rats leaving a sinking ship. Totally unfair of course as they built our Miller Homes for the past five years and kept our [...]
Feb 19 2008
According to the government 2012 will be a year of plenty with the golden shower of the Olympic Games to sustain us; but not everyone is quite so sanguine with fool.co.uk leading the chorus of doomsayers who believe that life could get very hard for people living in the UK.
Lets not discuss the cost of [...]
Feb 18 2008
All the discussion supermarkets and their prices seems to miss the point about what it costs to shop at supermarkets. Let’s start with “the facts”: supermarkets do drive down the cost of individual items in your shopping basket so shopping at a supermarket does on the face of it save you money!
But look at it [...]
Feb 16 2008
Bankruptcy statistics always get the interest of the press mainly because they are dramatic. So for example a record number of people petitioned to go bankrupt in 2007! Woooooooooooh! In England and Wales a total of 53,114 people petitioned to bankrupt themselves after being unable to keep up with their debts, [...]