Keep taking the tablets
Monetary policy - using changes in interest rates to influence economic growth - has been likened to taking aspirin. It is fine for most minor illness but no good when a ...
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Egg weighs into rivals over interest charges
Only a tiny percentage of people who apply for credit cards and loans obtain the rates advertised, according to Egg, which this week launched an extraordinary attack on i...
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Getting your 10 per cent
As shares look shakier than ever, many people are opting for income-based Isas rather than equity growth funds - hoping the cushion of a regular pay-cheque will protect t...
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Where cover is hard to get
Wythenshawe, a huge sprawling council estate nestling between Manchester's airport and the M56, loses out in the car insurance stakes.
An AA survey this week named it a...
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UK now Europe's jail capital
Britain is now the prison capital of western Europe, with an average incarceration rate of 139 for every 100,000 of population in England and Wales, and is even outstripp...
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Lib Dems offer two-way pledge on tax
The Liberal Democrats have fired the opening shot of a potentially critical local election battle by announcing they would cut council tax by £100 a taxpayer but als...
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Price to pay for high interest
Following the announcement by Lloyds TSB that it would pay 3.2 per cent AER on accounts in credit, I logged onto the bank's website to upgrade my account.
However, afte...
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Put your cash on the bank
Savers angry that their bank is paying so little interest may find they are better off buying the bank's shares instead.
Interest rates have fallen so far that most ins...
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Small cut - deeper wounds?
After 14 months of standing pat, the first move was always going to surprise somebody. But last week's quarter per cent cut in base rates by the Bank of England was a rud...
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Dental caries in the Bank gift horse's mouth
At 11.59 yesterday morning, the City was thinking about an early lunch. The Bank of England was about to announce its decision on interest rates, but few expected anythin...
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