Lessons in Personal Finance
These days more than ever are times when personal finance should be taught to young adults, especially if they are leaving home to go to college or just starting out on a new career. Whatever the route taken, personal finance is going to take up a large part of their life from now on.
Yet with [...]
Twitter can save you money
Twitter used to be laughed at as being a waste of time, after all who can bothered with sending and reading short messages? Well as it turns out quite a lot of people and the information, being sent around the Twitters can be very useful indeed.
Money matters has become one of the hot topics on [...]
Credit crisis can be good for your bank balance
The current financial crisis is going to have different effects on different people; it all depends on how their finances were holding up at the time when the credit crisis first started.
However the recession can be good for some people as there are many opportunities for UK consumers to get some great deals and [...]
Wasting energy will cost consumers pounds
This time last year most people in the UK were celebrating their good fortune of living in a booming economy which in turn fuelled foreign holidays, cars and just about anything else that you could think of, then all of sudden it stopped.
Almost over night things began to crash around us, but as people tighten [...]
Making global finance work
There is no doubt that the current financial situation is down to the problems associated with global finance, this is because as banks and institutions grow they take over other companies and so on.
This means that despite taking an established business, the way that the business has been set up with customers, credit and debt [...]
Recession played out in games
The cause of the current financial situation can be seen in the type and style of computer games that have been available over the years, but not just any old games what we are talking about are the business and world development games.
These games like the Sims, Tycoon, SimCity 2000 and 3000, SimTower, Capitalism, even [...]
Tips for saving money
There is no magic formula to saving and managing money, it just takes a bit of will power and the need to get your finances under control, before they get on top of you. This is because if they are left unchecked then they will surely get on top of you.
However, it does not have [...]
Spend or save in the credit crunch
There are two different ideas here, the first is to save and cut back on all expenditure, this would seem to be sensible as the current financial climate is unsure and in some cases very fragile.
Therefore, by saving money this could make sure that if the worse happens then you have something to fall [...]
It is a $100 Trillion note for Zimbabwe
There is a real sign of hyperinflation and that is when the central banks start issuing high denomination bank notes. We have been following this in Zimbabwe where the president, Robert Mugabe has found his country virtually cut off from the outside.
The central bank has had to introduce the highest denomination bank note ever recorded [...]
Fixing your finances
These days getting on top the personal finances should be a priority for most as by doing this it can be a way of getting ready for a new future where finance does not control you, but rather the other way around.
If ever there was a better time to get on top of the finances [...]
Fixing your credit rating
Your credit rating can affect the way that you conduct your life for a long time, this is especially important these days with the credit and finance industry being in such a state right now.
The first thing to do is get a copy of your credit report, there are three main agencies so it is [...]
Fixing your finances
There are plenty of websites which will tell how where you are going wrong with your finances, but are nay of these sites any good and do they really offer the sort of service that will help people to get on top of their finances.
Essentially the best way to get to keep on top your [...]
Get your finances under control
Today as the new year finally gets under way the reality of the financial crisis reappears, for many people the credit crunch has been on the back burner for a week or so, but with the festive season now behind us, it is time to face up to reality.
There are several ways to get yourself [...]
How to mess up your finances
For many people telling them how to mess up their finances is not needed this is because they are doing a very good job of messing their finances up all on their own.
However you have to think that this is not by design and is more by not understanding where they are going wrong, which [...]