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Use Currency Falls To Pay For Your Holiday

15 August 2008 | About Editor

DID you know that a family holiday costs £400 more than it did last year? It's a fact. It's a fact in the Daily Mail.... Read more | Comment now

Backing British Firms To Fail

1 August 2008 | About Editor

RULE Britannia. Well, you would rule the country, or at least own a sizeable chunk of it had you backed some of the nation's biggest companies to fall this year.... Read more | Comment now

Life In The Dead Cat Yet

18 July 2008 | About Editor

WHAT'S this? US shares are soaring... JPMorgan Chase, the mega US investment bank, revealed that its second quarter trading is ahead of analysts' gloomy expectations. Yes, it is the same JP Morgan Chase that has been hit by a 52... Read more | Comment now

Put Your Coat On Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac

15 July 2008 | About Editor

EVER hear of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Who they? The last surviving moomoos of the Mamas and Pappas?... Read more | Comment now

Corn Gives Food For Thought

1 July 2008 | About Editor

EVERY morning the Anorak website reads the tabloid press so that you don't have to. Anorak also reads the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The People - a stable of names with about as much get up and... Read more | Comment now

Go Wild For Tesco And Hitch A Ride With Stagecoach

26 June 2008 | About Editor

TESCO in America. The supermarket giant has opened its first store in the United States and plans to roll out many more. Residents of the Los Angles neighbourhood of Glassell Park are now able to buy British ready-meals made.... Read more | Comment now

The High Street takes the low road

24 June 2008 | About Editor

Is the High Street really going higher? Or is it actually lower? Brucie, tell us whats happening...... Read more | Comment now

HBOS in need of urgent prozac

20 June 2008 | About Editor

The banks are feeling miserable. But the ordinary man isn't feeling the strain just yet. Marvellous!... Read more | Comment now

Banks for the Memories...

3 June 2008 | About Editor

The good times are well and truly over...... Read more | Comment now

Interest on the rates grows

30 May 2008 | About Editor

Everything costs more - bricks, plaster, glass. Yet your house costs less. How does that work? Keats - get right on it...... Read more | Comment now

Bubble, Bubble, Oil And Trouble

27 May 2008 | About Editor

Oil prices continue to rise faster than Tony Blair's hairline...... Read more | Comment now

Oil be back

23 May 2008 | About Editor

Oil prices this week rose quicker than Fergie's bloodpressure. But where next?...... Read more | Comment now

Credit Crunch loses its bite

16 May 2008 | About Editor

Stop panic-buying carrots kids - the worst may be over...... Read more | Comment now

Wanted: Immigrants

13 May 2008 | About Editor

Bloody foreigners, not coming here and taking our jobs. So unreliable...... Read more | Comment now

A-Listers from the world of business prepare for a showdown with Brown

15 April 2008 | About Editor

Today Gordon Brown is meeting with chief executives from Barclays, HBOS, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland. Also sat at the big table will be leaders of the City's largest investment banks. Jade Goody is still awaiting her invitation.... Read more | Comment now

A country of Apprentices?

28 March 2008 | About Editor

Gordon Brown is about to set up a National Academy for entrepeneurs. He is a fool...... Read more | Comment now

City trembles as the Spanish Archer looms large

18 March 2008 | About City Slicker

The City Slicker watches men throw themselves off buildings in Canary Wharf, as the banking crisis of 2008 begins to bite...... Read more | Comment now

 

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