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- Bank Charges Decision Due Next Week by Money Watch on Nov 17, 2009
A date has finally been set for a decision in the long-delayed bank charges court case.Bank Charges Decision Due Next Week was originally published at Money Watch a UK personal finance blog. Sign up to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter.
- I should CoCo by Mark Wadsworth on Nov 17, 2009
As I have been pointing out for two years, the free-market way to fix the banks is via debt-for-equity swaps, i.e. this is exactly what happens if a bank is allowed to go 'bankrupt' - that doesn't mean that its payment system freezes up, all its loan...
- Natwest iPhone App by Money Watch on Nov 16, 2009
UK banks seem to be a little reluctant to jump on the mobile banking bandwagon, and Natwest is, as far as I'm aware, the first major UK bank to develop an app for the iPhone, having just stumbled upon in it the app store. How does it shape up?Natwest...
- We are considerably more Home-Owner-Ist than you. by Mark Wadsworth on Nov 12, 2009
From The Daily Mail:The CML said it expects around 48,000 people will be repossessed this year, the highest number of evictions for 14 years.The Tories slammed the Government's flagship repossession prevention policy, the Mortgage Rescue Scheme, for...
- Economics Thought Experiment Of The Day by Mark Wadsworth on Nov 12, 2009
One idea espoused by more rabid free-marketeers when discussing the banking system is the idea that banks should/should be able to issue their own currencies, e.g. as suggested by Financial Services Minister Lola in the comments to one of yesterday's...
- Fun Online Poll Results: What are we missing? by Mark Wadsworth on Nov 11, 2009
Last weekend's Fun Online Poll asked "Which is the better way to help businesses?". I normally wait until a hundred people have voted, but so far 73 have chose "Cut Taxes" and nobody has chosen "Bail out the banks, in the hope they'll increase lendin...
- Unemployment - What Hope For Our Young? by Thoughts Allowed on Nov 11, 2009
The Office of National Statistics has announced today that the number of people unemployed in the UK has risen by its smallest amount since May 2008. Before we pop the champagne corks and explode the party poppers, we should remember that the rise w...
