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Smaller businesses and in particular the self-employed like me will be delighted with the confirmation that the new fast clearance of payments into the banking system is coming this week. From …
At least that’s what Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, seems to think according to today’s Times. More particularly he’s concerned that the top executives at said banks are …
In recent weeks, given the remit of covering business money, I’ve said quite a lot about the state of the economy. I’m going to give it a break this week; either …
If you have to buy or sell your goods or services in foreign currencies, you know what damage an exchange rate shift can do to you. Especially if there are long …
…because a lot of this economic forecasting is giving me a headache.
It goes like this. Alistair Darling’s forecast for this year was for 1.7 per cent or so growth in the …