Last week was particularly interesting as HSBC released the latest in their line of headline grabbing products at an extraordinary rate of 1.99%, and I was asked to provide a comment. Comment I did, but I did not quite expect the furore that followed and the attempted rap on the knuckles HSBC themselves gave me.
Just when you thought Big Brother had been cancelled, along came HSBC and within minutes managed to get one of my quotes pulled from a website.
Yesterday the main news was all about the fact that the UK’s obsession with borrowing seems to be at an end, or at least put very firmly on ice. The latest figures showed that for the first time since records began in 1993, debt repayments outstripped borrowing.
The Evening Standard called this an historic “Micawber Moment”, after the Dickens character in David Copperfield who “lectures on the benefits of financial prudence”.
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