Well done ton – £400 in you pocket rather than gathering dust in a drawer can’t be bad
The economic genius Gordon Brown managed to sell vast amounts of the UK’s gold from 1999-2002 when prices were at a 20 year low and just before they rocketed up increasing in value 6 times over
in other very old financial news …
Wednesday 16th Sept 1992
The chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont and his Special Advisor David Cameron cost the UK billions in their ever more desperate and comical attempts to keep the UK in the ERM
UK interest rates ended the day a full 2% up
no idea what a 2% rise in interest rates would do people today, but I suspect there’d be some severe hardship for familes
Govs make mistakes every day that cost us money – we tend not to hold it against them for some reason and even make some of the architects of it Prime Minister