Analysis Topic: Personal Finance
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, July 07, 2018
Land Rover Discovery Sport What to Know Before Buying, 6 Month Owner Driver Review / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
This is my comprehensive review of the Land Rover Discover Sport after owning and driving a HSE Black trim for over 6 months, of what to expect if you are considering buying one as it does take a few months of real world driving before one is fully aware of the cars good and bad points, such as the pretty feeble plastic trim that tends to surround Discovery Sports, the rattling sound that many owners tend to experience again apparently due to poor quality trim / build.
So whilst the Discovery Sport looks great on the driveway and generally drives well, in many other respects my previous 11 year old Zafira was better i.e. the back two seats are seriously lacking in leg room, definitely not enough space for adults! And what's worse is that real world fuel economy will come nowhere near Land Rovers sales pitch of the DISCO doing 53.3 MPG. Then we have the fantasy of the first oil service change at 21,000 miles, when in reality the car will be requesting an oil change much sooner than that! So watch my 6 month real owner and driver review for what you need to beware of if considering buying one. Where this HSE Black was bought from Hunters Inchcape in Chester.
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Monday, July 02, 2018
Powerful Tips for Successful Gambling that Work / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Steve_Marks
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
Why it's Better to Use Bitcoin or PayPal to Fund Your Online Gaming / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Submissions
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Grown Ups Can Go FREE 2018 to Legoland, Chessington, Thorpe Park and Alton Towers / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
The school summer holidays are only a few weeks away so families are busy planning their holidays that usually include many trips to Britain's Theme parks where the king of UK attractions is Merlin with it's 32 theme parks spread out across the UK. We'll here is some great money saving news for you all as Kellogg are running their theme parks promotion on their £1 snack bars again that allows entry into the UK's top theme parks for the whole of 2018 for Grown Ups for FREE! So plenty of time to use the coupons to gain entry into 14 UK theme parks that include Alton Towers, Legoland, Chessington, the Dungeon, Sea Life, Shreks Adventure and Madame Tussaud's etc... See the video for full details.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
What Smokers Need To Know Before They Buy A Life Insurance Policy? / Personal_Finance / Insurance
By: Submissions
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Credit Card Debt and the Costs of Borrowing Are on the Rise / Personal_Finance / Credit Cards & Scoring
By: MoneyFacts
The quarterly Moneyfacts UK Credit Card Trends Treasury Report, which studies the UK personal finance market (Unsecured Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Overdrafts), reveals that the average purchase and cash rates on credit cards have risen during Q2 2018, as has the average cash withdrawal fee. This comes at a time when credit card borrowing is on the rise, up by around £3 billion year-on-year, while £318 million of credit card debt was written off in the first quarter of 2018*.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
UK Savings Interest Rates Surprise as 1 Year Bonds Reach Two-year High / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
The latest data from Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that the savings market has improved significantly over the past year, so much so that both average rates and table-topping Best Buy deals beat the rates seen around two years ago.
Savers should start to notice better rates in the market overall, as rate rises have outweighed cuts for 17 consecutive months, with Moneyfacts.co.uk recording 115 rate rises and 44 rate cuts in May. This is in stark contrast to two years ago, as savings cuts (156) outweighed rises (18) during May 2016.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Time is Precious When Choosing a Car Insurance Policy / Personal_Finance / Insurance
By: MoneyFacts
• More than half of consumers used a comparison site to pick their car insurance plan
• Over a third (38%) spent less than an hour hunting for a new deal
• 10% of respondents automatically renewed their policy without any extra research
• Only a quarter of consumers added breakdown cover to their car insurance policy
• Windscreen cover proves most popular as 76% of consumers included it in their plan
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Monday, June 11, 2018
FREE Theme Park Entry with Cadbury's Choc's! Legoland, Alton Towers, Chessington.... / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
The school summer holidays are only a few weeks away and families are busy planning their holidays that usually include many trips to Britain's Theme parks where the king of UK attractions is Merlin with it's 32 theme parks spread out across the UK. We'll here is some great money saving news for you all as Cadbury's are running their theme parks promotion again that allows entry into the UK's top theme parks for the whole of 2018 for FREE! So plenty of time to use the coupons to gain entry into 14 UK theme parks that include Alton Towers, Legoland, Chessington, the Dungeon, Sea Life, Shreks Adventure and Madame Tussaud's etc... See the video for details.
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Friday, June 08, 2018
Pleasure Island Theme Park Cleethorpes, Last Day Trip Before it Closed Down / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
Sadly one of the few theme parks in the Yorkshire / Lincolnshire region, Pleasure Island at Cleethorpes closed down last year with the gates closed for the final time on 29th October 2017. We had visited Pleasure Island a number of times over the years as it was easily one of the most affordable theme parks, as cheap as a £5 Tesco Club card voucher! So here is our video of a trip down memory lane of our LAST visit to Pleasure island at Cleethorpes when we enjoyed the parks rides, attractions and shows for final time as the rides were all auctioned off earlier this year so there is no going back, it's GONE!
Friday, June 08, 2018
Debt Consolidation Advice: When and Why to Consolidate / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: Submissions
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Thursday, June 07, 2018
Shangri-La Arms Race: Or Follow the Money / Personal_Finance / Military Spending
By: Dan_Steinbock
As the Trump administration seeks to boost arms sales in Asia, the Shangri-La Dialogue is morphing into a marketing arm of Western arms exporters in Asia.At the Shangri-La Summit, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis accused China of "intimidation and coercion" in the Indo-Pacific. "Make no mistake: America is in the Indo-Pacific to stay. This is our priority theater," he said. What Mattis left unsaid was why America wants to stay in Asia and how U.S. defense contractors hope to turn the region into a weaponized cash cow.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Train to Win 2 Minute Spinning / Rotating Bar Hang Challenge at Theme Parks / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: N_Walayat
Here is our definitive guide of how to beat the 2 minute / 100 second hanging from a bar challenge at theme parks such as at Alton Towers and Thorpe Park. Which includes our how to make your own spinning bar to train on. We also show at the end of the video of how we finally beat the challenge!
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Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Cash ISAs Falling Out of Favour With Savers / Personal_Finance / ISA's
By: MoneyFacts
The Personal Savings Allowance (PSA) continues to take its toll on ISA returns, as it seems that savers are increasingly putting their cash elsewhere. Recently, the HMRC released statistics showing a decline in ISA subscriptions just one year after the PSA was introduced in 2016.
To coincide with these findings, the latest research from Moneyfacts.co.uk shows a stark difference between the returns that can be gained on cash ISAs and those on non-ISAs. Despite rates improving from a year ago thanks to last November’s base rate rise, the average ISA rate (1.18%) has fallen by around a third since 2013 (1.74%).
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Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Can Flowering Banana Plants Survive UK Winter Nov to March 2018? / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Our big flowering and fruiting banana plants with little green banana fingers growing on them have been winterised during November 2017. However the UK is about to experience it's coldest winter in over 5 years (late Feb / Early March 2018), so despite winter care can our banana plants survive the harsh "beast from the east" UK winter ? Find out in our latest video in our growing banana plant videos in the UK series as we desperately try and bring last years flowering banana plants into summer 2018 where this video covers the period November 2017 to late March 2018.
Monday, June 04, 2018
FREE Entry to LEGOLAND Windsor Summer 2018 / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
Summers has arrived and families are busy planning their holidays that usually include many trips to Britain's Theme parks where the king of UK attractions is Merlin with it's 32 theme parks spread out across the UK. We'll here some great money saving news because you can gain entry to Merlins premier kids resort LEGOLAND for FREE. See our latest theme parks video for the full details.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
UKGC Set to Make Online Gambling Industry More Risk-Free / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Varun_Kumar
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Free Entry to Merlin Theme Parks Such as Legoland and Chessington With Kellogg Serials / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
Summers has arrived and families are busy planning their holidays that usually include many trips to Britain's Theme parks where the king of UK attractions is Merlin with it's 32 theme parks spread out across the UK. We'll here is some great money saving news for you all as Kellogg's are running their theme parks promotion for another year that allows entry into the UK's top theme parks for the whole of 2018 for FREE! So plenty of time to use the vouchers to gain entry into 14 UK theme parks that include Alton Towers, Legoland, Chessington, the Dungeon, Sea Life, Shreks Adventure and Madame Tussaud's etc...
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Climate Change Canaries and Our Changing Climate / Personal_Finance / Climate Change
By: Richard_Mills
Climate change is the buzz word of the 21st century along with its controversial cousin, “global warming,” with both cited frequently as explanations for evidence of our planet in ecological flux. This includes freak winter storms that appear to contradict the “warming” thesis, scorching summer droughts, water shortages, rising sea levels, retreating glaciers, melting permafrost, skinny polar bears, dying coral reefs and the extinction of species.
While there is disagreement over its causes – man-made versus natural – the reality of climate change is an incontrovertible fact. The planet is warming, affecting our weather, our oceans, our growing seasons, even our food, as crops fail, causing shortages and price hikes. Storms are becoming more frequent, and more intense, and droughts are lasting longer.
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Friday, May 25, 2018
Merlin Passes Top Tips for Buying and Using Premium vs Standard, Theme Parks UK / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: HGR
Summers 2018 has arrived and families are busy planning their summer holidays that usually include many trips to Britain's Theme parks where the king of UK attractions is Merlin with it's 32 theme parks spread out across the UK such as Alton Towers, Chessington, Legoland, Thorpe Park and the Dungeons and Sea Life centres, including a dozen clustered in and around London. So here are my top tips for buying and use of Merlin passes of whether you should buy Premium, Standard or a mix of both. Also we find out exactly what you get in a Merlin Premium Pass holders privilege pack, so find out if it's worth paying that extra £50 or not.