So the Draghi Bazooka II will be just under €530bn: Goldilocks, if you like that kind of liquidity. Not too high, not too low. Instant thoughts: This is about €330bn of new money once you strip out roll-overs of shorter maturities. The last one in December was a net €200bn, so it is a nice [...]
Sex, money and the myth of ‘grumpy old men’
Money matters more to women than men, with the latter being more interested in sex, according to new research by the over-50s specialist group Saga. These conclusions may come as no suprise to anyone who remembers the Mrs Merton question: “So, Debbie, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?” But the analysis challenges [...]
The case in favour of money printing
One of my faults as a columnist is seeing both sides of the argument; I sometimes struggle to make up my mind. I’m in just such a quandary over quantatitive easing – torn between on the one hand regarding it as an unadulterated evil which unfairly punishes savers for the sake of debtors, and on [...]
Using Prepaid Cards for Money Remittance
Money Remittance is one of the fastest growing areas within prepaid and a number of prepaid card providers are looking at this fast developing area as one of the biggest drivers of prepaid revenue in the next decade. Money remittance to certain countries like India, Philippines, Indonesia, etc represents a huge flow of money into [...]
Stay Safe Abroad With a Prepaid Travel Money Card
A prepaid card can be your very own travel money card that you can use when you plan to travel to distant lands where everyone is a stranger including you. An individual’s sense of adventure will eventually come, and if it has finally dawned on you, then you will be glad to hear that there [...]
The New Travel Essential – The Prepaid Travel Money Card
Prepaid travel money cards are quickly becoming the preferred option among people to make transactions while they are traveling. They are fast replacing using foreign currency or traveler cheques as the leading paying medium during traveling. Prepaid travel cards allow you to load your card with any desired amount of money that falls under the [...]
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How to make money out of your home without selling it
Rising unemployment, inflation and taxation – coupled with pay freezes and falling returns on savings and investments – mean many members of the ‘squeezed middle’ may struggle to make ends meet in 2012. But it’s not all bad news. You can make money out of your home without selling it and even without owning it. [...]
Part 2/2 Bird & fortune – Financial crisis – Silly Money, Nov 08
2nd Nov 2008. Bird and Fortune on Silly Money satirising the absurdity of the financial crisis.
Cheap money cuts bankruptcies – but beware worse to come in 2012
Cheap money – with interest rates frozen at a historic low for 33 months – means the number of people going bankrupt continues to fall and has now reached its lowest point since the credit crisis began, accountants calculate. But experts at RSM Tenon and Grant Thornton warn that this trend will reverse when interest [...]