And so it happened. The arrival of the first in what surely must be a bull run of bankers catapulted into the real world reality TV shows
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Can you bank on me? Make bankers earn their bubbles
And so it happened. The arrival of the first in what surely must be a bull run of bankers catapulted into the real world reality TV shows. Can you bank on me?, shown tonight at 9pm on BBC2, is based…
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Can you bank on me? Make bankers earn their bubbles
The Bank of England slashed the base rate from 5% last October to 0.5% by March. The idea, of course, was that reduced borrowing costs would help mitigate the severe effects of a recession-inducing financial crisis
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Chart of the day: The true picture of rising loan rates
When I was a lad, you insured your car - a beautiful brown Ford Escort 1.3L in my case - third party. It was cheaper and if the car was written off, it had cost very little anyway (£750 for…
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Chart of the day: Why ‘fully comp’ is cheapest
The stubborn refusal of inflation to fall back as much as predicted shows how the threat of rising living costs has not gone away. Yesterday’s inflation figures delivered a surprise to economists as once again the consumer prices index measure…
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Has the threat of inflation really gone away?
I wrote in February of my observation that house prices were 38% over-valued against average wages - a crucial measure that was brushed aside in the boom years. With a slight recovery helping house prices edge back to February levels…
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Me, the MPC man and the 38% house price fall
I wrote in February of my observation that house prices were 38% over-valued against average wages - a crucial measure that was brushed aside in the boom years.
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Me, the MPC man and the 38% house price fall
In April 2009, I launched the This is Money buy-to-let barometer, a very slightly more sophisticated follow–up to my dismal house price predictor which, in June 2007, pointed to house price falls. How the buy-to-let barometer works We’re lucky enough…
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Our buy-to-let barometer: July
I had the pleasure of talking pensions on the BBC1 Breakfast programme today. Pensions regulator David Norgrove has told the BBC, in an interview to be shown tonight, that he thinks the state pension age, soon to be 65 for…
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Will the State pension age be raised to 70?
Celebrity plumber Charlie Mullins, of Pimlico Plumbers fame, took a surprise leap into This is Money’s top arrivals from internet search engines yesterday thanks to an appearance for his firm in Channel 4’s How the Other Half Live. The daily…
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Charlie Mullins: the ‘we all think we could do that’ test
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