Anyone living in the UK recently will be surprised to see that the CPI figures dropped marginally last month. Anyone filling up their car with petrol, of seeing their latest mortgage repayments or paying their energy bills will be shocked. So is the CPI now a true representation of the way we live, or...
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With the ceasefire seemingly holding in the Lebanon, its maybe too soon to fully analyse the aftermath, but it certainly seems that the winners from the war have been Hizbollah, with both the Israeli and the ‘official’ Lebanese governments weakened during the process. Soon after the bombs stopped falling and the people returned to...
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Seasoned landlords are offloading their exposure to risky portfolios just as new buy-to-let beginners are jumping into the market in droves. Some say it’s like watching ‘Lambs to the slaughter’ – never has such a phrase summed up the abject state of the ‘buy to let market’ so succinctly. For some time commentators, this...
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The Bank of England has revised its forecast of growth upwards to 2.8 percent this year, with further projections of growth next year reaching 3.1 percent. For growth to slow down to the Gordon Brown’s (UK Chancellor) projection of 2-2.5 percent there would need to be a very sharp decrease in the economy over...
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A few years ago we were treated to the promise that new fuel cells would allow us to simply use lighter fuel to charge the batteries in our laptops and cell phones. With the issue of Dells exploding laptops we suspect that consumer acceptance of devices fuelled by lighter fluid could mean that these...
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