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Is the UK economy heading for stability or just more trouble?
There's a new Chancellor in town and he means business. Serious business.
After Kwasi Kwarteng tried to spread some joy to get growth going with tax c…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Wave founder Nick Hounsfield interview: How I built my £27m surfing lake dream from £500 in the bank
If you were asked to name a world-class place to surf, a field near Bristol isn’t the first location that would spring to mind.
But this slice of the …
3 years, 5 months ago
What you need to know about gilts and why markets freaked out so much it toppled the Chancellor
When gilts hit the headlines it’s a clear sign that trouble has not only been brewing but has been unleashed.
Government bond yields only tend to brea…
3 years, 5 months ago
How bad will the mortgage chaos get and will it sink house prices??
Rocketing rates have sent the average two and five-year fixed rate mortgage through the 6 per cent barrier.
This is a level that would have been consi…
3 years, 5 months ago
Did the UK stage its own mini-financial crisis... and who was responsible?
As markets went haywire and the Bank of England staged a bond market intervention earlier this week, it felt like a mini-financial crisis had been tr…
3 years, 5 months ago
In brief: Why is the pound falling and why are UK borrowing costs spiking?
In this excerpt from the This is Money podcast, Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost discuss why the mini-Budget has combined with last week's interest ra…
3 years, 5 months ago
What does the tax-cutting mini-Budget mean for you and the UK?
Britain's new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a blistering mini-Budget this week that was anything that small.
A wave of tax cuts were unleashed. …
3 years, 5 months ago
The pound, inflation, interest rates and energy bills... what happens next?
The Bank of England is tipped to raise interest rates by at least 0.5 per cent this week, but the pound fell to a 37-year low last week - reaching $1…
3 years, 6 months ago
How to get a better pension: Steve Webb answers your questions
This is Money's pensions guru Steve Webb racked up his 300th column answering readers' questions this week.
Over the past six years, Steve, with the h…
3 years, 6 months ago
The cost of living crisis cutbacks that could harm your long-term wealth
Belts are already being tightened but as bills head even higher more people will look to save where they can.
But are there some things that you shoul…
3 years, 6 months ago