Archive for November, 2007
what is the Bank of England base rate and why is it important?
If you keep up with the news, especially the business news, you can’t fail to notice the interest that surrounds the announcement of any Bank of England base rate change every month.
I knew that the rate used to be decided by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but is now decided by a committee. I also [...]
i’ve got a facebook profile
If you’re on facebook, you can now add me to your friends as I’ve joined the twenty-first century and signed up. Clearly it’s a work in progress.
I don’t give to charity because…. debunked
I’m a big fan of giving to charity. Obviously I’m not sufficiently organised to do this in any other way than automatically, so I’ve got some direct debits set up to my favourite charities. Not everyone donates though, and when called on this, they usually cite some dubious excuse. I’m going to go through a [...]
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