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Payday Lenders Launched Indepth Report of Consumers Habits
The Payday industry launched an in-depth report this week which examined and identified the challenges consumers face in the current economic climate. The report, titled ‘Credit Crunched’ is the largest study of payday customers in the country and was commissioned by the Consumer Finance Association (CFA). The study aims to become a barometer of the social environment [...]
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Will Green Energy Save Our Earth But Cost Our Wallets?
A British think thank has recently estimated that families will be paying £600 a year towards green energy by the year 2020. However, the Department For Energy And Climate Change has publicly criticised this study, claiming instead that green energy will actually be used to lower future energy bills, rather than increase them. According to [...]
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Diving the Cenotes – Grand Cenote and Casa Cenote
Have you ever tried Scuba Diving? Ever since I first put on the gear a few years back, I have been addicted. Last year, I posted about diving in Roatan – one of the bay islands in the Caribbean and then again about the amazing sensation called String of Pearls that can be seen at [...]Was Antony Breeze Killed By Payday Lenders?
Last week, Bolton father Antony Breeze died after dousing himself in petrol and setting himself alight. His suicide came after months of being harassed by payday lenders. Breeze, 36, told passer-by who tried to intervene that he had ‘had enough.’ After his death, police found recent text messages from no less than three different payday [...]
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Why You Should Visit St. Lucia ~ ‘The Emerald Isle’
The post Why You Should Visit St. Lucia ~ ‘The Emerald Isle’ appeared first on Money Bulldog
Weekend Round Up #14
The Weekend Round Up features five posts from members' blogs from the previous week.
I expressed my anger at the BBC publishing advertorials when one of their articles, written by the head of a finance company, used a high annual return of 7% for stock market returns and a low 0.5% annual rate of interest for a savings accounts to illustrate the benefits of stock market investment.
Adam of Money Bulldog asks if you should buy a house in 2013. That's a hard question to answer, it could be cheaper paying rent, especially if you have a large enough cash deposit to get a decent mortgage rate. However what if house prices do fall more?
Maria of The Money Principle discusses how to identify if you have too much debt. I'm quite debt averse, partly due to the face that neither of us had permanent jobs. Any debt we had, which was usually a mortgage, was paid off as soon as possible. Yes we might have made more money by staying in debt for longer, but we didn't want that debt haning over us.
Drew at Objective Wealth gives advice on how to make resolutions that work. I'm not a fan of New Year Resolutions as they seem to be part of an annual cycle of habits that aren't back up by actions.
PTMoney's post on How to Make Personal Finance Stick: The Shower & The Shovel highlights the hurdle of realising that you need to get to grips with your finances and taking action to make the necessary changes.
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