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I've just listened to James Howard Kunstler's latest podcast [1] , an interview with "ecological economist" Eric Zencey, w...

Read this outrageous story from Michael Snyder. JPM and others are buying up local government tax debts, multiplying them with their own ch...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-house-prices The Economist magazine published an interactive tool at the e...

John Ward looks at the split of TSB from Lloyds Bank and suggests TSB customers should get out - as well as Co-op customers, who look set f...

http://www.capitalbay.com/latest-news/297010-new-principal-suspended-2-days-after-showing-students-scary-terminator-spoof-video-he-made-...

Dear Mr Hitchens I'm glad you're taking up the cudgels for savers . You may (I hope) be interested to know that when NS&I IL...

"Tens of thousands [of] customers with old National Savings & Investment savings accounts will see returns cut in November, it eme...

In King World News (2 August) Hugo Salinas Price alerts us to the threat of interest rate rises, which he describes as "fatal" an...

In a new article for Pieria , Frances Coppola argues that fixed currency systems can't cope with rapid change in the balance of internat...

In which token action is grudgingly promised: MP to me, 14 July: I accept that there are issues about access from time to time. I wil...

".. allow me to remind you of Sibley's Law. Giving capital to a bank (said that worldly banker, Nicholas Sibley ) is like giving a ...

Conventionally, we are told that market timing is impossible and that you'll miss short,sharp gains by staying out, etc. But the marke...

We have new, again not wholly satisfactory, replies from the Treasury:   MP's covering letter (dated 10 July 2013):   ...

Source: Charles Hugh Smith   Another corker from independent thinker Charles Hugh Smith today. The graph above shows how the "bo...

Yesterday at Marylebone railway station, London, I saw a banner poster from Blackrock Investments , urging savers to consider getting ou...

The struggle continues... No reply to my email of 21 April (see Part 2 of this series) before I sent the following: Me to MP's resea...