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Price of a haircut
Price of a haircut

I am sure that  you would have noticed that  new word has emerged as a buzzword. It is of course a “haircut”.   I am old enough to remember when…

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Deja- Vu or here we go again
Deja- Vu or here we go again

Here we are again, as if we have never left, the headlines are the same as 2008, banks in trouble, blah blah blah.   What I find amazing is that…

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A country in Europe beginning with the letter G
A country in Europe beginning with the letter G

Way back in June, I stated that it was purely a matter of time when Greece would leave the Euro, not if she would leave the Euro. Everyone’s attention is…

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Elephant in the room
Elephant in the room

Talk is cheap they say, but the talk that the EU leaders are currently engaging in, is very expensive. There is a huge elephant in the room , and they…

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Fudge again Europe favourite sweet
Fudge again Europe favourite sweet

I am sure that Fudge has to be the EU’s favourite sweet, they have been fudging ever since the first financial alarms sounded concerning Greece. Up to last Thursday, it…

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Rarer then Hen’s teeth
Rarer then Hen’s teeth

The banks are still not lending to SME’s. According to the Bank of England today, “small businesses are still being rejected, ignored and treated unfairly by banks”, MPs were told…

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Sweet tooth of Europe
Sweet tooth of Europe

I am convinced that Europe has a very sweet tooth, especially for one particular sweet. fudge. The way in which the EU has fudged on the Greek problem is quite…

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Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse

The question people are asking is how will Greece repay their debts, and what structures can the EU put in to place to minimise the damage. Lets be totally frank,…

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Standing still, not an option!
Standing still, not an option!

Back in the mid seventies, when I first started in Leasing,  the company I was with launched a sliding  card lease calculator, which worked out the lease rentals for every £100 increase…

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