Financial know-how and literacy are important life skills. Find out what’s going on in the stock markets, who sets interest rates, how mortgages work, the role of banks, crypto currencies, Blockchain and much more.
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies or SPACs for short have been a much-used financial instrument over the last years and were specifically hyped during the pandemic years
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What is the difference between a normal savings account at your bank or an ISA?
7/10/22
Saving is not meant to be a thing for parents or older people only, just in case you think it is.
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In 1914 Britain was at the very top of its power; the British Empire controlled 25% of the world’s land surface and about 25% of the world’s population
20/09/22
The events over the last 2 years (yes only 2-plus years since the first lockdown) have resulted in soaring energy prices
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Gross Domestic Product or GDP simply put is the sum total of all activity/output in an economy
5/08/22
Borrowing money from the government to get a degree is what more and more of us have to do, but the government is asking students to pay exorbitant interest rates
13/06/22
31/05/22
So, prices are up and they look stickier than we want. The ‘cost-of-living-crisis’ is the new watchword.
24/05/22
The current inflation tornado that is affecting everything, is pinching students hard too and in some instances to uncomfortable levels
10/05/22
Hedge funds are famous and infamous at the same time; they are big ego-ed and often – to outsiders at least - incomprehensible and opaque in their dealings
5/05/22
