The recession n the United Kingdom has been running full blast for the past few months now like a firestorm in a dry forest. Just as in any forest fire, however, something good comes out of it for some reason, after the carnage. Picture this, before the recession began, the biggest problem the world faced was Climate Change. It seems that now, with the recession, we can kill two birds with one stone. Such is the case in the car industry in ... Read More

Times are really really hard. Most of us grown ups already know what’s going on with  our economy.   But how about the young ones? What is their idea of the country’s financial situation? A group of primary School Children were asked to give their own understanding of  the most widely used economic terms at the moment. The following are the best answers chosen by a team from This Is Money: Credit Crunch • “A credit crunch is when banks stop ... Read More