Showing posts with label lending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lending. Show all posts
Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Cash for Bags!

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**** I just love this : In a city driven by consumers' voracious appetite for the newest and latest luxury products, handbag-drive...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Sorry Archbishop but you're wrong...you won't beat Wonga by having moneylenders in church halls

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**** The new Archbishop is off at a gallop gleefully sticking his neb into all and sundry including the iniquities of the down-market cred...
Wednesday, 28 November 2012

A good day for organised crime...

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Over in the secret hideaways of the organised crime bosses, cognac glasses are chinking, cigars are being lit - the toast is; "David ...
Sunday, 14 October 2012

It isn't social justice to encourage people to take out loans they can't afford. So why is it Labour Policy?

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**** You know the housing bubble that was a big factor in creating the mess we're in? Let's remind ourselves what Clinton and Bu...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Letting politicians and the well-meaning run banks is a daft (and dangerous) idea

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**** The other day Vince Cable announced his new small business bank : "We need a new British business bank with a clean b...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

"International evidence proves..." ....that you're probably making it up!

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**** How often do we here this or one of its variants: "European research shows..." or "Evidence from Australia indicates.....
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Monday, 12 March 2012

...add sub-prime loans to business! Hey, that's a thought Vince!

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**** Sometimes I could cry. Vince Cable wants cheap loans to business from a state investment bank: "It would almost certainly be n...
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Thursday, 9 February 2012

Can we reduce the "poverty premium" without repeating those sub-prime mistakes?

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**** Niall Cooper from Church Action on Poverty has written a piece of what he calls “fair pricing”: And secondly, fair prices.  Much...
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Friday, 18 November 2011

In which I defend the indefensible...

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I’ve rather held off from writing this post. Partly because right now lending is a touchy subject and partly because I don’t want people ...
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Mick and Gerard discuss the banking crisis...

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**** Mick is a gardener – a fictional gardener to be sure but he could be real. Mick cuts grass, trims bushes, digs over and plants up flow...
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Monday, 19 July 2010

Banks, interest rates and the misuse of APR

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An almighty outcry (at least on the BBC who want to plug their Panorama programme and Vince Cable who’d like someone to notice him) about t...