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Payday loans companies charge high late payment fees, interest rates of around 4000% APR, and can push many people deeper into a spiral of debt which ...
Thousands of people could be going without food, clothes and heating in order to pay back "payday loans", and the number of people taking on the credi...
I've never seen a club chairman cry over football, I've never seen a manager do it either. Sure, the odd player has shed tears but I've seen millions of fans with tears streaming down their faces because of their love for their football club and that's why we need governance to protect football from itself.
We got into this mess through financial engineering and manipulation for individual profit. Maybe it's time we considered some more manipulation, this time for the benefit of everyone and not a greedy few.
Your credit report is all about you, not your address, not your family members, not even your pets, just you. If someone who lived at your address before didn't pay their bills this won't turn up on your credit file, it will turn up on theirs. So that's one less thing to worry about.
If we are all going to be taking a larger stake in the restructuring of the European banking system, we have to do it right.
Although too often an afterthought, end of life costs should form a central part of this planning; a loved one passing away is a difficult enough time as it is, unattended and unexpected financial costs should not add further upset at a time when loved ones are grieving.
That said, there have been a couple of positive developments for the global economy over the past month. First of all, the ECB's announcement of a bond-buying programme has buoyed sentiment by averting the prospect of an imminent collapse of the euro zone.
Debt is hardly something new and what it does to a life are not new either. Emerson, as a socially concerned person in 1936, understood it well and expressed in a way that feels powerfully close to us today.
It has been widely reported that the government is considering abandoning the second half of its fiscal mandate - that debt should be falling as a percentage of GDP in 2015-16. My view is that the short term economic impacts of this are limited. It's not really news; NIESR has been saying for well over a year that this target was unlikely to be met.
The level of ignorance amongst most electors (and many politicians) about the nature of their government's finances is appalling. But our ignorance is the basis of their power. It is also the reason for their incompetence.
Truly sustainable economics and widespread prosperity can only be based on the viability of the land and its soil--not on increasingly unsustainable supplies of oil.
It is not a good time to be young. Our youth are bearing the brunt of the economic depression and its self-defeating solution of austerity and cuts.
Britons are sitting on a secret mountain of debt that they are keeping hidden from their partners, and women are more likely than men to owe more and ...
The increase in private debt in the last twenty to thirty years has led many people to become concerned about the future of the economy. The argument that a high level of personal debt would create economic problems has gained support due to the recent turmoil in the financial markets.
Some individuals have achieved staggering levels of affluence compared to their peers. This is undeniably true. So is the fact that some countries have accumulated a stock of wealth that is by orders of magnitude larger than their competitors.
With the lack of job prospects in the UK affecting so many, hundreds of Britons are being forced to turn to alternative means to get enough money to get by, week in week out.
Millions of Nationwide customers could be left hundreds of pounds out of pocket, after a "human error" meant payments from Visa debit cards were dupli...
New reality: get good marks that few think are credible, go to university, accumulate student debt, compete against global peers, work an average 43 hour week, rent, raise a family if you can afford it, zig-zag for 45 years through dozens of companies, retire with whatever you have managed to save, live to 81.
Adam Holliokae, the former captain of the England one-day team, has told of the strain at being made bankrupt and is in court over £14m debts. In ...
Nearly three quarters of parents fear they will be unable to provide financial support for their children through university, new research suggests. ...
Britain's young people are concerned about their futures, with many worried about getting into debt and finding a job, a survey has found. It revea...
Eradicating child poverty is an ambitious but hugely important aspiration. Not only does it makes sense economically, as according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation the annual cost of our high levels of child poverty is around £25 billion, but it is a moral duty, as no decent society should allow children to go without, to the extent that it affects their future life chances.
Students are borrowing large sums of money without being aware of their bank's repayment conditions, leaving them in dire financial situations when th...
If the West fails to mend its ways it will be like a mammoth tanker that is no longer able to change course. Under such conditions only a much bigger and deeper crisis can force countries to act differently. Yet by then they will no longer have a safety net to cushion the blow and spread the pain.
