#money (59 links)
- A new kind of gentrification is spreading through London – and emptying out schools | Anna Minton | The Guardian theguardian.com
The positive rhetoric and branding of placemaking is that it transforms run-down areas into vibrant and economically successful parts of the city. The reality is that it creates sterile places, emptied of so many of the essential aspects of urban life, except the expensive activities. The city may be emptier than ever of children and families, but tables at sought-after restaurants are still booked up weeks in advance.
- There Is No AI Revolution wheresyoured.at
- How much happiness does money buy? economist.com
Armed with little more than the principles behind them and some maths that has been solved for half a century, you can build an entire theory of how to invest your hard-earned savings. It tells you how much you should risk on the stockmarket, how much you should keep safe and what you can spend in retirement. It requires just a few facts about financial markets and some of the simplest, cheapest investment funds that asset managers offer. What is more, it was first formulated by a Nobel-prizewinning economist and is today almost universally accepted by his successors as the “correct” approach to investment and spending. Yet outside academia, almost no one has heard of it.
- 159 — Stop Scams UK stopscamsuk.org.uk
159 works in the same way as 101 for the police or 111 for the NHS. It’s the number you can trust to get you through to your bank safely and securely, every time.
Didn't know about this service.
- Pension vs ISA - which is the better investment? - Money To The Masses moneytothemasses.com
- Pension vs ISA youtube.com
- nimbl nimbl.com
- Mortgages: how to get your mortgage in 10 steps rightmove.co.uk
- The Slow Death of the University - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com
"Education should indeed be responsive to the needs of society. But this is not the same as regarding yourself as a service station for neocapitalism. In fact, you would tackle society’s needs a great deal more effectively were you to challenge this whole alienated model of learning. Medieval universities served the wider society superbly well, but they did so by producing pastors, lawyers, theologians, and administrative officials who helped to sustain church and state, not by frowning upon any form of intellectual activity that might fail to turn a quick buck." Terry Eagleton on good form.
- Project Credit Union - Day 1 — Go Free Range. gofreerange.com
Chris Roos Introduction We’re going to see whether we can start a credit union . We’ve been talking about this for a while and we’ve decided to use our current…
- Hugs and Kisses medium.com
<blockquote>"Again, money raised its head: to confront the unavoidable truth that you require financial stability to do what you want to do. And that to whine about that being unfair is perhaps childish and irresponsible because if you’re serious about your art, then you should be, well, serious about creating the conditions in which you can create your art.</blockquote>
- The Definitive Guide To Project Billing planscope.io
- How parents will take advantage of Help to Buy - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
- End of the line for commission | Money | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- The Richest Man in Babylon (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.m.wikipedia.org
- How to become an ethical investor | Money | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- A slow savings account ( 4 Apr., 2012, at Interconnected) interconnected.org
"A slow savings account would work exactly like a regular account -- I could pay money into it, and transfer money out. The difference would be: when I pay money in to a slow savings account, it appears in the available balance exactly one year later." I want one of these.
- The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
I like this. "A quick note to say that I am really disappointed that you have still not paid me the [..] that I'm owed for the work I did for you. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot of money, but actually I think that this is more a matter of respect."
- The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. | The Freelancery thefreelancery.com
"Here’s a pricing technique that sounds, at first, like the dumbest newbie move of all time. Call it ‘fill-in-the-blank’ invoicing. Or ‘pay what you want’ pricing. The notion is, you do the work first, then let the client decide how much to pay for it." Heavy caveats.
An interesting (though obvious, after-the-fact) consequence of increasing our hourly rate, is that the customers that were left tended to be exactly the type of customers we’ve always wanted to work for — they appreciate, value and demand high quality, and are doing interesting things.
- Microloans in Hackney | Feature | Society | The Observer guardian.co.uk
When you start dealing with people with unpredictable lifestyles and with income that might be variable month by month, you can't just use the same computerised systems of default and interest that you use for people in regular salaried employment. Muhammad Yunus's microfinance model, which operated in parts of the world where everyone's lifestyle was precarious, had shown that. You had to know exactly who you were lending to, and establish more intimate and flexible models based on that knowledge.
#microfinance #development #london #money #poverty #uk #economics #hackney #community #banking#credit - Rescue your pension | Money | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Mushrooms and roots in a paper or cloth bag; "bananas avocados, melons, marrows, courgettes, peppers, cucumbers and beans all become mushy and blackened much faster in a domestic fridge than a fruit bowl at room temperature."
- Meeting Ticker tobytripp.github.com
Beautiful. Need an iPhone version.
- Make Money Online: 101 Top Ways of Doing It experienced-people.co.uk
For PH.
- Pension MoneySaving: Buy a different way to boost returns... moneysavingexpert.com
- How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog freelanceswitch.com
If the fear of losing clients is holding you back from raising your rates, here are some pointers to help you broach the thorny subject of asking for more…
- How Top Bloggers Earn Money images.businessweek.com
- Six ways Twitter can make money - Download Squad downloadsquad.com
- Wesabe wesabe.com
Makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.
- Wedge - Think Local. Shop Local. wedgecard.co.uk
Our aim is to re-vitalise local communities by offering an affinity scheme to customers using local shops and services.
- The best way to professionally raise my rates? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?
- Late Payment Calculator - Great to get payments - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums forums.moneysavingexpert.com
Many self-employed/freelancers/small businesses face the same problem. You've done the work - yet your corporate clients haven't paid on time. Yet you have a legal right to charge interest if companies don't pay you.
- annualcreditreport.co.uk – a free credit report every year, no credit card details required annualcreditreport.co.uk
Online credit reports and free credit file monitoring
- 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job stevepavlina.com
- Orange puts squeeze on customers | The Register theregister.co.uk
Existing Orange customers were surprised to discover that itemised billing is now going to cost them £1.50 a month.
- National Rail Enquiries - Special Offers A-Z nationalrail.co.uk
- gosummer.com gosummer.com
Welcome to gosummer.com — the place to find fantastic money-saving vouchers including 2 for 1 deals and free child places.