Your jargon busting guide to the current crunch crisis
Posted in Blog on Nov 21st, 2008
The government keeps bailing out the banks, lending them millions at a time; also taking over bad mortgage debt. But where is this money coming from? You would have thought that if the government had all of this money they could have used it before to invest in education or the NHS.
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Not a week goes by when we don’t have several firms telling us to get a credit card with them. Could this be a reason for the current financial crisis; the ease of getting hold of money? With a credit card you tend to spend now and think about how to pay the money off [...]
Posted in Blog on Oct 24th, 2008
I began reading an article in The Economist about the impact of the financial crisis in West Asia. As I continuously found the text more tedious, my mind began to wonder away from the jibberjabber on the page and focus more on the every day impact.
Posted in Blog on Oct 15th, 2008
When Britain finally went into recession a matter of weeks ago, there seemed to be this sense of inevitability beforehand, like it was already a foregone conclusion and that the recession was already underway.
Posted in Blog on Sep 24th, 2008
I am still unclear whether we are launching this site live throughout the internet or just on university campus. Until we make this decision it is difficult for me to distinguish whether interviewees will talk to us on the record or allow us to use video cameras/sound recorders.
The Economist
