The ‘Hope for Haiti’ telethon has raised over £35 million for Oxfam, Unicef, Partners in Health and other earthquake relief groups.
Calls are also mounting to wipe out the country’s £1 billion debt to help it recover from the terrible devastation caused by the massive earthquake on 12 January 2010, which measured [...]
If you are trying to get a mortgage, a loan, or perhaps claim Family Tax Credit/Working Tax Credit you will invariably need to produce your pay slips for a given period depending on the needs of the other party. Unfortunately a wage slip is all too easy to lose and most [...]
From Publishers Weekly
Radio talk-show host and bestselling author Ramsey (Financial Peace) is less a financial analyst and more of a preacher, which explains both his popularity and the appeal of this book, which just might gain a wide audience. The bedrock of his system is simple: work [...]
In THE ASCENT OF MONEY, Ferguson whose series War of the World garnered critical attention last summer traces the evolution of money and demonstrates that financial history is the essential back-story behind all history. Everyone needs to understand the complex history of money and our relationship to it, he says. By learning how [...]
From Publishers Weekly
This prolific team tackles the advent of legal tender and a mini-history of economics in their latest picture book. The concept of barter is introduced and then shown evolving into the modern practice of trading money for goods and services. Currency’s physical development is also [...]
Amazon.com Review
Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too [...]
As the recession continues, many house-holders affected by redundancy or unemployment are facing further difficulties as banks and lenders attempt to reject their PPI claims.
Financial experts report that one in six claims are being rejected, meaning that those struggling to make mortgage, loan or credit card payments due to redundancy, [...]