Money can make a leader, but they can also break a leader.

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Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in late 2007, the intertwined relationship between money and politics has somehow become more intertwined. Between 2001 up to 2007, the world leaders such as George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Jacque Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, Vladimir Putin etc were putting anti-terrorism, community relations and national security at their [...]

Financial Services Authority (FSA): Too small for the banks or too big for the inspiring entrepreneurs?

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Since 2007’s Northern Rock crisis, the world’s financial market has been tumbled like being destroyed by tsunami. Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, HBOS, Fanny May and Freddie Mack, and then now onto the eurozone crisis in PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain). It has somehow identified with Swedish pop legend ABBA’s song lyric: “Money! Money! [...]

Nissan to create 1,000 jobs in the UK

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In a UK boon, the auto industry has been boosted by news that Nissan is to create around one thousand new jobs.

What can we learn from the celtic tiger boom time?

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Many people don’t know or don’t recall the huge fortunes that were won or lost in Ireland during the Celtic boom. Ireland saw huge speculation on property and land with prices spiralling upwards with no sign of abating. Today the market is very different with ghost estates prevalent consisting of rows and rows of unbuilt [...]

UK misses recession by just 0.1%

Whilst optimism is increasing, the UK narrowly missed going into official recession by just 0.1%, a very narrow margin. Growth was seriously low meaning that output and growth have stagnated. However this was only for a period of one month, so this could be just an anomaly.

Fuel panic buying grips Britain

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In the face of a possible strike, motorists stock pile fuel resulting in nationwide shortages. Garages are closed and out of fuel as tempers fray. Is it time to fill the jerrycan?

UK Stockmarket decline

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The uk stockmarket fell for a third day in a row as Greece comes under renewed fire over the European crisis. The FTSE 100 dropped to its lowest levek since the end of Jan 2012 as Greece looks to increase the ceiling on its borrowing.

Latest 2012 Budget News

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Its been an interesting budget – and while the Chancellor has agreed to give a tax hand out to those in the middle, there are those who consider this a millionaire budget – favoring those with a great deal of wealth. Whether the budget goes far enough to get the UK moving again, time will [...]

Sainsbury is now the 2nd largest online grocer

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Sainsbury has overtaken asda to become the second largest online retailer with a twenty percent rise year on year. Tesco remains at position one as the market leader. Clearly we are becoming a nation of online shoppers as more of us are doing our grocery shopping online. Already there are implications for small retailers wuth [...]

Its rare when china lowers its forecast

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The chinese premier has lowered the expected growth from 8% to 7.5% in an almost unprecedented move in nearly 7 years. Still its a tiny reduction and china is still growing at an incedible pace.

Britain is the most expensive place in europe to buy fuel

Its now official that Britsin has the highest fuel duty of all our european neighbours leading some to claim the governments strategy is killing businesses by preventing people from looking for work because of the sheer cost of petrol. Quentin wilson who used to appear on BBCs top gear laments that excessive duty is causing [...]

Has the UK become an overcrowded hellhole?

Some are beginning to think or even have done for a while that there are simply too many people living in the uk. Perhaps it might seem un-palletable to many, but as competition for resources increases it increases prices for everyone. Just look at house prices and the huge demand for houses or inexpensive places [...]

Why Ryanair are thieving bast@rds

My partner has just been denied boarding by one of the Ryanair robots. You know, one of those almost human excuses for snivelling staff that makes Dickens scrouge look warm hearted. These robots it turns out are not happy that the nationality did not match the boarding card. So despite getting all the way to [...]

Barclays can now let you pay by phone with their service payit

Barklaycard have developed a service where you can send payments between phones knowing only each telephone number. Currently the service only works between account owners but it is due to roll out to non card holders. Such a service could mean getting a loan approved is even quicker and easier than before and on your [...]

Can you turn yourself into an entrepreneur?

Are you born or made? Can you learn at any age how to be entrepreneurial? If you hanker to be a business leader can you go and just do it? Times are tight and you might find yourself out of work for sometime so then challenge becomes how to afford the cost of living. And [...]

Keeping your business sane with xero

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For many the archetype business package has been Sage. However as more people move online to the cloud, newer entrants to the market have emerged such as xero which are completely cloud based solutions where you can access your business accounts from almost anywhere. Not only that but you can readily allow your accountant to [...]

Warren buffet says gold is not that precious

The legendary investor Warren Buffet cannot understand why anyone would invest in gold which is an asset that generates no income and no wealth. Buffet say that if you were to pool all the gold reserves in the world together you could buy several billion dollar companies that generate billions in income whilst gold earns [...]

Should you be a micro entrepreneur

Have you ever thought you’d be an entrepreneur but thought you’d need a lot of cash to start up then become a micro entrepreneur where you use a relatively small amount of cash to start a business. Such businesses can be started using existing platforms such as ebay to buy, sell and trade. You might [...]

Get rich schemes, here’s how they work

Are you ever tempted by the offers of instant wealth in a letter from unknown people offering you anything from courses to materials on how to achieve it for a certain fee. We list some of the common schemes here: 1. Making money online. Well yes you can make money online. After all this is [...]

Are rising rents going to kick start the buy to let revolution again?

For many homeowners they have become reluctant landlords after being unable to sell their property. As potential first time buyers struggle to achieve the mortgage deposit for their own home and turn to renting, could this be kick starting the renting market creating pressure on would be renters and hence increasing prices. Many estate agents [...]

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