Who are the richest people of all time?
When we think of the wealthiest people around, normally the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and the Sultan of Brunei spring to mind. But although these people hold some serious wealth in today’s crazy world, their wealth when worked out in relation to the economy is fairly small.
So just who are the richest people [...]
Banking crisis could show loses of £800 billion
At lot has been said about the credit crunch, but in reality this may be revised to a credit crisis! As warnings are coming out that banks worldwide are bracing themselves for a series of massive loses.
The problem is that some people would be inclined to say that it’s their own faults and get on [...]
Food prices increasing due to bio fuels
When bio fuels first started appearing they were greeted as the next greatest thing to hit the automotive world. But as this new form of making our fuel resources last longer has become popular, there are now concerns that maybe bio fuels aren’t as great as we first thought.
Environmental campaigners are now claiming that the [...]
Cutting the cost of filling up
As the price of fuel seems to increase almost on a weekly basis, we have several choices to combat the fuel price crunch. We can just grin and bare it, don’t drive at all or we can take some positive action and find ways of cutting the price of filling up.
Below are some ideas to [...]
Channel Four pays £150,000 ransom
Paying kidnappers is supposed to be a definite no for anyone or organisation to even consider as an option. For one reason there is the possibility that the hostage will not be released, or that the payment will just encourage them to do the same thing over again as it is a good money spinner.
Obviously [...]
Saving money on petrol
With the price of fuel taking off, the cost of filling up is getting higher virtually every week! But for some people who are already feeling the pinch from the credit crunch, these small but regular increases will eventually reach a point where the cost of driving is quite simply too high.
But as normal there [...]
Chancellor says “Times of tough”
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling has been quoted as saying “Times are tough” thank goodness for that, we must be all sleeping better now! But in all seriousness he has insisted that the UK will be able to survive the current credit crunch.
However since mentioning that we will all come out of this [...]
Doctor gets £35 per week
With many services being stretched to the limit, it must be strange to find people who are highly qualified people living in this country but because of their circumstances cannot work and cannot return to their own place of origin.
Welcome to the life of an asylum seeker, where there are many fully qualified professionals, who [...]
Gay marriage business worth millions
The wedding industry has always been a big business, but with marriages not being as popular as before times could have been tough, but as with many areas of business every cloud has a silver lining and this cloud came just at the right time.
Gay weddings are now the big business which is fuelling other [...]
How to be smart with money
The time to start to have look at how your finances are going is now, when time are beginning to get tight. Things like the credit crunch may not be having a direct effect on your finances yet, but it will eventually as food and fuel prices begin to bite.
So what can you do to [...]
ING offers safer online banking
ING Direct is launching a nice little piece of software which is going to help the security between their website and their customer’s computer.
This means that even if the computer has been infected with a programme such as malware or spyware, which is great for all computer users as this adds another level of security [...]
Making the most of reward programmes
With so many reward schemes around these days, it is just too difficult to gauge which ones are worthwhile, after all you only get a small amount of which can be described a discount or saving.
These schemes can be in the form of discount cards, points awarded on how you spend in a certain store [...]
TV stars earning millions
As many people are feeling the credit crunch, it seems that this is not the feeling that the stars on TV and Radio are getting. With recent reviews of spending and costs it has been revealed that around forty of the most popular faces of TV and Radio are earning over one million pounds per [...]
June 2, 2008Are there any currencies stronger than the Euro?
It would have to be something special if there was a currencies which performs better than the Euro at the moment, but there is and it comes from a very unexpected area.
The currency in Israel, the Shekel has been performing very well over the months and years, but in particular since the beginning of 2008, [...]
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 [...]
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 12, 2008Soak 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 [...]