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The Guardian reports on research from Aon Consulting which has found that the value of British workers’ pension pots has dropped by a third over the past year, thanks to the tumbling stock market. In fact, this story is all over the headlines today – which is hardly surprising because it’s a pretty good story [...]

And that’s not just us being our usual gloomy selves – Charles Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of England, reckons that we’re now facing the worst financial crisis in human history. Just think about that for a second, possibly the worst financial crisis in human history and it’s not been caused by a world [...]

If you’re waiting for this whole “property market slowdown” thing to blow over so you can sell your house/buy a house/stop lying in bed awake at night worrying about whether you’ll have to spend your retirement eating nothing but Asda own-brand catfood, don’t expect things to improve any time soon. The news just keeps getting [...]