Recent Posts Tagged With 'UK'

• Credit Card Jungle

  Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 in Canada, credit card, UK, us, credit cards, interest rate, fine print

  Image by Getty Images via Daylife Credit Card Jungle was how Mike Hogan described the situation in a Barrons article earlier in the year. Even though there are some good business credit card deals to be found, it is very much a case of Buyer...

• How safe are your savings

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 15:03 in UK, article, financial services authority, building society, financial services compensation scheme

  How safe are your savings? was a question being raised last year by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK as British people were investing £6bn in more than 170,000 Icelandic accounts. Nevertheless, just how stable was Iceland’s fi...

• Tax deductible mortgages

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 11:42 in Canada, mortgages, UK, us, tax deduction, canada revenue agency

  Any one in the US or the UK will wonder why such a post is necessary. They all automatically have their mortgage interest payments tax deductible. Not so in Canada. However with a little work, even in Canada you may find that Tax deductible mortga...

• Predatory Credit Card Practices

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 14:04 in Canada, credit card, UK, debt, usa, credit cards, payment protection insurance, balance insurance

  Predatory Credit Card Practices seem to be a hot topic at the moment.  A CBC story suggests that Canadians want a credit card ‘bill of rights’. Canadians feel powerless when it comes to their credit cards — whether the problem is ...

• Bankruptcies Soar And There Will Be More

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 19:11 in Economy, UK, confidence, usa, bankruptcy, banking, recession, international monetary fund, stimulus

  As a confirmation of the depth of the recession around the world the numbers of filings for bankruptcy seem to be soaring wherever you look.  Here are just some of those headlines. Canadian bankruptcies soar 47 percent in December The Office of the ...

• UK Pensioners In Poverty

  Posted on Saturday January 17th, 2009 at 11:19 in mortgages, UK, Pension, pensioner, national pensioners convention, poverty threshold, ukpensions

  100 years after first state pension - and 2.5m older people still live in poverty. That is the headline in the latest issue of the Mature Times.    If you are unfamiliar with the Mature Times,  it is well worth a read.  For e...