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Digital Money World

July 1st, 2008

Europe feels America’s pinch

I’ve lived in Europe for a decade, and visited it for much longer than that. My city, Rome, Florence and London were always packed with American tourists and in Britain, this lean year, foreign visitors spent about $7.5 billion in the first six months of the year, the British Tourist Authority said, […]

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June 8th, 2008

Your credit rating and you

This week I wrote on the importance of knowing what your credit rating record says about you. Some interesting questions and tips were sent in about this. Thanks to those who contributed, it makes for good reading. http://www.digitalmoneyworld.com/the-credit-crunch-and-how-to-survive-it/
Some important things to remember about your credit rating are:
1.It’s not only the banks who are interested in this, […]

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June 6th, 2008

The Credit Crunch and how to survive it.

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If you’ve been tuned in over the last few months, you could not have escaped the reports of doom and gloom that spill out daily about the credit crunch.
But what can you do about it?
Do you know how credit worthy you are?
Do you know your credit rating?
If you have a bad […]

By moneypenny -- 8 comments

May 27th, 2008

Almost June - time to think about summertime and the cost

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Well there comes that moment, for example: the eminent arrival of June, when you are forced to confront how you are doing on your goals and resolutions that you made in January.
Are you earning more, saving more, and eating less,
or are you earning the same, saving […]

By moneypenny -- 6 comments