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Foreigners pulling their cash out of the UK. Jim Cramer and the equity advice from hell. Sunday, September 21, 2008. Foreigners pulling their cash out of the UK. It is amazing how the main stream media miss the really big financial stories. Foreigners are pulling out their cash. Here is a question - why do you think foreigners are pulling their cash out of the UK? Posted by Alice Cook. In the third quarter of this year, UK banks wr.

Are we in a recession? The jobs data settles that question. lost jobs for a third consecutive month in March and the unemployment rate rose to the highest level since September 2005, pointing to an economy that may already be in a recession. Payrolls shrank by 80,000, more than forecast, after a decrease of 76,000 in February that was more than initially reported, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The jobless rate rose to 5.

Saturday, September 24, 2011. Crushing levels of debt in advanced countries. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Tuesday, February 1, 2011. A rate rise likely in China. China is likely to raise rates. 6 percent last year, but analysts said that underestimated inflation. More evidence of rising prices.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value. The poor ye have always with you. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.