It is time to get wise to money men's ways, writes Jon Strange.
My bank phoned me up the other day to ask me how I was doing. Nice guys. Was I happy with the service? Pretty much. Did I know I could access my account on the internet? . . . 15/07/2004 read »
Jon Strange wants politicians to get a grip on finance.
At a high-level politics seminar a couple of years ago, a panel of senior journalists discussed Europe with an extremely eminent British diplomat, a man at the end of a long career in Brussels . . . 01/07/2004 read »
Politicians should think twice before bailing out pensions, writes Jon Strange.
The British government has announced it will give £400 million to 60,000 people that lost their pensions when their employers went out of business . . . 20/05/2004 read »
Forget the myths: the Square Mile treats its workers well, writes Jon Strange.
When people hear that I work in the City of London, most react with a mixture of sympathy and envy – sympathetic because I must work in a high-tech sweatshop . . . 19/02/2004 read »
Consumerism and credit-card abuse are not just Western problems, writes Jon Strange. Just look at South Korea.
Last week, the BBC gave us a day of television programmes based on debt and silly spending. Being BBC1, they called it "Hey Big Spender Day" . . . 05/02/2004 read »
Your home is not just a castle, it's also keeping the world's economy afloat, writes Jon Strange.
When you can pocket £50,000 by sitting in an average house in Brighouse, West Yorkshire for a year, it is obvious the British housing market has become a very strange beast . . . 22/01/2004 read »
