In an effort to save money and get the public more involved, the current government has setup a website - Spending Challenge - where members of the public can make suggestions on how the government can cut costs and save money. The best ideas will be considered as part of the Spending Review, which will set out four year spending …
There's quite an interesting programme on BBC1 at the moment - Fake Britain - and in last night's episode they covered the topic of fake cash and credit cards. Fake credit cards and notes are well known and in the case of notes, most people are well versed in checking for fakes, but what was surprising was the number of …
You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don't know the other players, you can't see them, and you can't communicate with them. The game you are in is called 'Greed!', and is straightforward to explain. You are asked to write down a whole dollar amount in the range $1 - $1,000,000…
This is a very clever advert for a finance company in Germany, though it's not really for children or the prudish, so depending on your company, it may be NSFW too.
We were sitting watching telly last night when we heard our letterbox flap squeak as it does when someone pushes junk (and any other) mail though. I went over and grabbed the junk mail flier that had been pushed through and had a quick squizz.
The flier was for Provident gift vouchers. I very quickly dismissed it as more crap and…
The cost of borrowing money in the UK has hit an all time low and is nearly free. The BoE dropped interest rates to a record low of 0.5% today. Sadly this isn't quite as good as it sounds. The drop doesn't really help many people as most of the banks aren't passing this on in reductions in mortgages and …
The Bank of England decided to lop another 0.5% off the base interest rate taking it to a low of 1%. Sadly, I don't think this is going to have much of an effect in helping the economy to recover. Money isn't expensive, it's just hard to get hold of. Lowering the interest rates to silly levels isn't going to …
Zimbabwe's central bank is about to introduce a 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth about $33 (22 pounds) on the black market, to try to ease desperate cash shortages. At the same time, they'll be introducing Z$10 trillion, Z$20 trillion and Z$50 trillion notes.
I can't imagine how you'd fit all those zeros (all 14 of them) onto a small piece…
Woohooo!!! The Bank of England decided to lop off another whole 1% off the base interest rates taking them down to a level not seen since 1951. Now all we need is for Nationwide to pass on the whole 1% cut, even to those with collared tracker mortgages like Claire and I have.
Ever have a dream of filling a bathtub with $10 million? I have and have now done so so I can tick this off my list of things to do before I die...
