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Are any of the building societies a safe place to leave your money these days?
We were all assured just two months ago that we’d seen the last of the building society emergency takeovers with the demise of the Dunfermline but now it seems that we’re starting on yet another round of emergency takeovers as West Bromwi...
Wow we just borrowed another £10k
Well, not us directly but the government’s £175 billion borrowing equates to for each family in the UK thanks to the incredibly optimistic UK budget announced today. Actually, it’s worse than that as the borrowing is planned to continue ...
Ever decreasing circles on the employment front
One of the unfortunate side-effects of the recession is that there are both more people looking for jobs and fewer jobs to go around. Sounds obvious but that combination means that each job on offer attracts a great deal more interest. Popular jobs c...
Do labels really change how you see your status?
Frankly I figured that the relabelling of “unemployment offices” in the UK some years ago as “job centres” as just a PR gimmic by the government but it would appear that there’s a little more behind it than I’d th...
Will the euro survive the recession?
This is the first really serious recession that the euro has had to deal with and there are starting to be signs appearing that it’ll be the last. The problem arose basically because the entry requirements for going into the euro were created w...
Don’t burn your bridges when you leave work to emmigrate…
Although we set off for France with the intention of spending the rest of our lives here, in practice I left on a career break which left open the chance of me returning to work at any time up to five years from my departure from work way back on Feb...
Is France really doing well?
Sometimes it seems that it’s purely the UK that’s in the doldrums economically at the moment whilst France appears to be sailing merrily along. However, locally we have seen that both of the local cafés are now closed. Whilst one does cl...
Slowing down for Christmas
We’re in the midst of our customary Christmas closing and generally lazing around at the moment. Boxing Day brought us our first serious bought of snow for several years and for a while it was looking like we’d be snowed in for quite a wh...
