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  Warning: low interest rates are seriously damaging your economy

  There was widespread coverage of the Co-operative Bank’s failure to take over 631 branches...

  • Posted 28 days ago
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  Trust me, I’m a politician!

  The financial system depends entirely upon trust. Our faith in financial institutions and regulators...

  • Posted 38 days ago
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  The Keiser Report: UK savers have suffered a Cyprus-style 20% haircut

  Although the UK media were obsessed by the proposed 6.7% “haircut” of insured savers...

  • Posted 44 days ago
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  What’s worse? The Cyprus smash and grab or Osborne’s interminable bloodletting?

  After one of the longest ever unscheduled bank holidays, the banks in Cyprus have...

  • Posted 56 days ago
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  What George Osborne did for savers in the Budget

  George Osborne, March 2009: “Action is needed to help savers. At the moment, income from...

  • Posted 63 days ago
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  Savers refuse to give up

  I don’t imagine many savers are holding their breath ahead of this week’s Budget....

  • Posted 66 days ago
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  Four years of savers propping up the banks and subsidising debt

  This week four years ago, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England...

  • Posted 79 days ago
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  The essential inflation index

  It is hardly surprising the economy is so limp, given how living costs are...

  • Posted 83 days ago
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  Putting the saver’s case to the Treasury Select Committee, part two

  The Treasury Select Committee is conducting an inquiry into Quantitative Easing and the way...

  • Posted 91 days ago
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  Public Accounts Committee slams Treasury

  As you may be aware, the Treasury Select Committee is currently holding an inquiry...

  • Posted 93 days ago
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  The inflation myth

  Although it may pretend otherwise, the Monetary Policy Committee has a remit, set out...

  • Posted 98 days ago
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  Putting the saver’s case to the Treasury Select Committee, part one

  The Treasury Select Committee is conducting an inquiry into Quantitative Easing, particularly the way...

  • Posted 104 days ago
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