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Credit Crunch Puts Plans on Hold

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The credit crunch means that everyone is having to take greater control over their finances, whether it is due to worrying about how much interest your savings are earning or being worried about mouting credit card debt, it seems as though the effects of the credit crunch are inescapable. It is now appears that the [...]

Credit Crunch Means Longer Working Hours

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The credit crunch means that Brits are working the equivalent of an extra day each week, according to new research by recruitment consultants Badenoch and Clark. According to their figures, this is due to the employers cutting jobs or not replacing staff who decide to leave. These money saving tactics are resulting in existing employees [...]

Credit Crunch: Budget Britain

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As the credit crunch continues to take hold of our finances, an increasing number of Brits are taking more time to plan their personal finances, in order to keep their debt management under control. Recent findings from Co-operative Life Planning has found that almost three quarters of us (74.1%) are planning our finances more, as [...]

The Financial Face of Britain

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The credit crunch has changed all of our lives in some way, meaning that many of us may feel as though we have debts that we cannot afford or that we are becoming penny-pinchers in order to make our pounds go further. Lloyds TSB have released a Financial Face of Britain report showing that the [...]

Charities Lose Out to the Credit Crunch

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Charities could soon suffer from the credit crunch as Britain is becoming more frugal. Research by nfpSynergy shows a direct correlation between GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and charity income since 1980. It shows that charities have had a dip in their donations when the average disposable income has fallen. Although charities have not reported a [...]