by admin | May 30, 2016 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, In Business, Insight, Monthly Musings, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
“According to…….” According to @enf collecting data about housing costs is a worthwhile exercise. Kudos. 1979 was the year that San Francisco’s Mayor imposed a rent control, 70 years later, data inspection shows an average 6.6% increase...
by admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
The Bank of England stress test results on the British banking system are being issued December 16, alongside its half-yearly financial stability report. The tests focus on the housing market and the Bank’s ‘adverse scenario’ which has a correction factored in....
by admin | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, In Business, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog
Data from ONS show that illegal drugs and prostitution contribute around £10bn a year to the British economy. For the first time statisticians are measuring the value of the drug-dealing and sex work – apparently about “the same contribution as farming ...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Feb 3, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Small Business Blog
The Gatekeepers of Your Business (Part One) Any sized business can make a big promise happen by delivering the value proposition, specific to that business, when its committed to and supported by the right gatekeepers – from an answerphone holding the fort, to a...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 14, 2013 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Government
The sun had hardly set on an announcement that RBS, the bank with kinetic pull from politicians, could see itself and Lloyds Banking Group going out to ‘public’ ownership when RBS’s CEO, with a mixed public image, built around a £45Bn public bailout to turn around a...