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  We’ve been busy lately at Cashzilla Towers! We’ve been talking to some of the best finance writers online, and this week we’re delighted to host their ideas and opinions about how to manage our personal finances and private banking in 2012. Today’s guest writer is Ash from Sterling Effort. Save, save, save. Building a [...]

  Ever dreamed of buying a house? Well you’re a crazy fool and you should lower your ambitions. Houses are for people with huge sums of cash in reserve. If you don’t own a house now then you probably never will so just deal with it. What’s that? You want a flat. Well sure you [...]

  In a move which will no doubt delight consumers, the Government has revealed plans to stop companies charging excessive credit and debit card surcharges. The new regulations will also force those charging card fees to reveal the cost before consumers have clicked through a multitude of webpages. The new regulations follow a lengthy campaign [...]

The UK economy is going to suffer a more severe economic downturn in 2012 than previously predicted. Experts had predicted growth of 0.6% in the coming year but now econmomists at Standard Chartered bank say that the economy will in fact contract by 1.3%. However, other institutions say that Standard Chartered’s prediction is at the [...]

It can often be extremely difficult to tell the difference between genuine and fake notes for instance but Canada is looking to make it even tougher to forge notes.

Figures out today reveal that British GDP has grown 0.5% in the last three months which is better than most analysts expected. But what does that figure mean exactly?

It seems that the Euro will slowly filtering its way out of circulation and now the world’s leading economists are looking for a way for countries to opt out of the currency effectively – for a cash prize obviously.

It has just been revealed by the Bank of England that inflation has risen to 5.2% – its highest level in three years. The figure is up from 4.5% in August, and rising energy costs seem to be the main culprit to blame for the hike. These figures are bad news for the British public, [...]

Governments around the world are trying to tell us that the worst of the 2008 financial crash is over, yet things don’t seem to have improved much; what’s worse, no one seems clear on what exactly went wrong, and why? However, back in the 1960s a mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, was watching the fluctuation of cotton [...]

So Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, has announced that they are to inject £75bn into the UK economy as part of their quantitative easing (QE) programme. The move comes after a series of global shocks, like the problems in the United States and the Eurozone crisis, which have raised fears of [...]