How fit are your finances?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Applying for a new loan or credit card is a competitive business, with the best deals going to the people who have the fittest credit history. If you want to be in the running, you need to remember the old [...]
Learn MoreShould I overpay my mortgage or save my money?
The question of whether to over pay your mortgage or accept a low return on your money invested is an importance issue in today’s economic climate. As a money saving expert, I will explain how you can save thousands of pounds by over paying your mortgage and why it is more tax efficient than saving [...]
The more the Government spends the shorter the recession - Money Saving Expert
In today’s climate of recession meltdown it is difficult not to scaremonger or upset anyone when analysing the world around us, the consequences to each of us and the impact of the debt our children might one day inherit. Are the changes that have been implemented by the government and the Bank of England really [...]
The Governments Great Bank Bailout has not worked!
What’s the alternative?
The problem we face now is not the cost of money but the availability of money. We need the interbank base rate to ease up to make it possible for banks to get money from the markets to allow them to lend again properly. The low interest rates at present do not allow [...]
Deepest recession for Twenty Years - Stop reducing Interest rate!
The Bank of England’s interest base rate is expected to reach an all time low of 1% later today. The current rate of 1 ½ % is the lowest level of interest base rate ever seen in 315 years since it was established in 1694. This is dreadful news for savers but great news for [...]
British consumers have New Year resolution to save more money!
As we near the middle of January 2009 many of us find our New Year’s resolutions slipping away as they always do. For many of us it is just something we do on New Year’s Eve and then hope we remember it on New Year’s Day and then continue it. For many of us it [...]
British Government may start printing £billions soon!
There seems little point in reducing interest rates any further as the interest rate cuts are proving to be ineffective and the Bank of England base rate cuts are proving to be unpopular with savers and borrowers. The pound is falling against the dollar and the euro. Savers are not being rewarded for saving [...]
Savers get a raw deal again as interest rates plummet!
The Bank of England decision today to drop interest rates to 1½ % is the lowest interest rate in the Banks 314 year history, since it was established in 1694. The Banks of England’s reason for another drop in the base rate is their concern about inflation, the costs of imports as sterling is very [...]
British Savers hit Hard by Bank of England’s Decision! | Mortgage Expert
Yesterdays announcement by the Bank of England delivered an unexpected statement that they were cutting their base rate by 1½% from 4.5% to 3%. It has been done to kick start our stalling economy and to try and prevent a deepening recession. Everyone was expecting a ½%; but, we all hoped for a full 1% [...]
