by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Government, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog
Last August had the London riots, this year August has the London Olympics. Last year had Project Merlin and Greece in the headlines, this year it’s all about mortgage price wars, because of the FLS (Funding for Lending Scheme) overstepping the NLGS (National Loan Guarantee Scheme) to which the Bank of England will be monitoring. Interest [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 17, 2009 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Hearing over the weekend about further loss of life in Afghanistan and reading all the various debates in the weekend papers brought to mind some verse written by Rudyard Kipling. Titled If and written with regard to his friend, Dr Leander Starr Jameson’s raid against the Boers in 1896, and the British Government’s backtracking deceitful [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jul 30, 2009 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Uncategorized
Digging Deep for Change A private excavation in the late 1930`s, initiated by landowner Mrs Pretty on her land at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was made by Basil Brown, “a local archaeologist of no formal education” along with her gardener and gamekeeper. Using only spades and barrows they unearthed what is thought to be the [...]
