The finance of oil production
As the price of oil increases on a day to day basis, it is getting seriously hard for average motorist to sit back and keep paying up, but as they need their cars for family and work they are finding themselves no option but to pay up and get on with it.
But why is the [...]
Looking after the pennies
There is that saying where looking after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. Well one man in the US did just that and has allegedly fleeced banks out of $50,000 a few cents at a time.
Anyone who has opened up a PayPal account will know that they deposit a small amount into [...]
Drug dealer claims 1/4 million from bank
The Supreme Court in Switzerland has ruled that a claim put forward by a convicted drug dealer for some cash that he had stashed away in a Swiss bank account returned to him after it was seized by the authorities.
The drug dealer who comes from Australia had been in prison and travelled to Switzerland [...]
The Pentagon misplaces $15 Billion
Everyone who is in charge of any organisation whether it is large or small, private or publicly funded, always feels a little bit of anxiety so we can only imagine how the person in charge of the Pentagon feels when the auditors come back saying that there is $15 billion missing!
But we should not be [...]
Bad News: Oil hits $130 a barrel!
As if things were not bad enough for everyone the price of a barrel of oil has now reached the heady heights of $130, meaning that the price of fuel is going to be more expensive as well as everything associated with it.
So it not only means that petrol goes up, but because food and [...]
Banks using even more surveillance
Fortunately for us the humble consumer this time the banks are not snooping in on what we are doing, mind you having said that they do monitor absolutely everything we do on accounts!
The banks are now monitoring their own staff, this sort of surveillance could mean checking their emails, listening in on their phone calls, [...]
Who are the cyber criminals?
Although the people behind cyber crime are basically faceless this sort of crime is one sector within the organised crime industry that is continuing to grow, in fact there has been a rise of around forty per cent a year into a £51 billion industry.
This growth underlines the fact that it is not just a [...]
More millionaires for UK in 2017
There may be fears that the credit crunch is going to take its toll on people in the UK, but in a recent study by Barclays Household Wealth Index it has been estimated that by the 2017 there will be 2.4 million households in the UK that will have an income of more that one [...]
May 15, 2008How to control your credit card
Getting into the credit card trap is so easy for some people to fall into these days, with so much credit being offered sometimes it is just too hard for some people to say no, even though they know that they could be heading into trouble.
Here are some tips to help avoid the trap:
Restrict yourself [...]
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Becoming a millionaire is not easy, even if you have a great job or your own business. But there are always tips that will help and advise you should you wish to knuckle down and save every last penny that passes through your hands.
On the other hand you could just think, “What the hell” and [...]
Soak your cash to make double
There has been some really good scams around that like selling Tower Bridge to the Americans and so on, then there are those that are really outrageous and make you wonder how on earth some people get sucked into these ideas.
Take the Vietnamese man based in Norway, he found a Frenchman who had a new [...]
Getting out of debt
It is essential these days to have some sort of money management system in place these days as it is all too easy to get into a massive amount debt and before long the debts have got so out of control and the situation can only get worse from this point.
But the secret is a [...]
The most expensive day
Could the 6th May actually be the most expensive day on the yearly calendar for UK residents? Well if we listen to the Carphone Warehouse then we would just have to agree. They have been doing a bit of research and have found the real reasons behind why this date is so significant for the [...]
May 6, 2008Iron Man makes $100 million
The latest comic strip from Marvel to hit the big screen has done so with some success, only being out for less than one week the film “Iron Man” has taken $98.6 million at the box office, but these figures were not enough to take the number one spot of best debuts which are non [...]
May 5, 2008Man cashes cheque for $360 billion
A man tries to cash a cheque in a Fort Worth, Texas bank for a mere $360 billion and is surprised when the bank ask him a few questions about it! He claims that the money is from the mother of his girlfriend who is financing him to start up a record company.
But later Charles [...]
Interest rates cut in the US
As food and fuel prices still carry on rising, the Federal Reserve in the States have cut interest rates again for the seventh month in row, but as prices continue to rise is this just delaying the inevitable?
It is believed or hoped, that the rising prices of fuel and food will not continue past a [...]