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Soaring UK personal debt wreaking havoc with mental health, report warns (The Guardian)
Poorer people are "bearing the brunt of a storm" during which average household debt has risen to £54,000 – nearly double what it was a …
Our money system guarantees that inequality will get worse – Here is the evidence
The gap between the very richest and the rest of us has increased continuously over the last thirty years. Did you know that top 10% of …
We’ll never have it so good again?
The middle classes can no longer afford the houses and schools that their parents did – and the future looks even more squeezed for their …
The economic madness of Help to Buy
The UK has a serious household debt problem. In 2012 it stood at almost 150% of disposable income, one of the highest levels amongst …
The housing market – unsustainable asset bubble or ladder to prosperity?
This article first appeared in Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Sustainable Homes 2013: Every time I attend to a lecture on house …
The Grassroots Reinvention of Money Part 3
This is the 3rd part of the series The Grassroots Reinvention of Money. You can read the 1st part here and 2nd part here. Profitable and …
FT: Western economies hooked on ever-expanding levels of debt
Every now and then a financial journalist hits the nail on the head in the issue of the debt crisis. An article entitled "West’s debt …
Osborne in denial over housing bubble – says City AM
We’ve been warning for three years that there are only two ways to get the economy growing again: 1) Allow banks to create more …