There is an excellent short article by Martin Lewis at Money Saving Expert entitled A mortgage warning, take a look at the UK Interest rates’ history since 1694 he says Today’s interest rates aren’t just low, they’re not even just the historic lowest rate ever, they’re 1.5% below the prior lowest in its 316 year […]
Politics
House Price Bubble
The BBC has published an article today about the unveiling of the costs of the Government’s Help to Buy scheme. Amongst other things, the article says: There have been concerns the scheme could fuel a housing price bubble, but Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander told the BBC that there is no UK price boom. Which is […]
Something New
Recently, I posted “Oh look, someone has noticed”, remarking on how the Government has suddenly noticed that we have a problem over food security and fuel security. Today we have something new: But Mr Woolas, who became immigration minister in the reshuffle earlier this month, said: “This government isn’t going to allow the population to […]