The Economy Archive

  • The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger on July 14th, 2010 // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already...

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  • How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already named the austerity budget,...

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  • Unemployment Insurance – Beat The Public Spending Cuts!

    Unemployment Insurance – Beat The Public Spending Cuts!

    The past week of electioneering and the unemployment figures released midweek by the Office of National Statistics, paint a gloomy future for many currently employed in the Public Sector and jobs that rely on Government Funding. Whatever the outcome of the General Election on May...

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  • Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    There’s been a lot of positive talk in the UK housing market over the last few days or so……..Onward Christian Soldiers…..Relaxation of the credit stanglehold?Total net lending to individuals rose by £0.3 billion in October. The twelve-month growth rate fell to 0.7%, and the three-month...

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  • UK Commercial Insurance Sector Set To Recover

    UK Commercial Insurance Sector Set To Recover

    With the UK in the deepest recession since records began in the 1950′s, it is hardly surprising that the Commercial Insurance Sector has seen it’s customer base shrinking faster than the Royal Mail says it is losing hand written letters, and one would have thought...

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  • Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    The grand old lady from carrot crunching country just couldn’t cut the mustard with the bosses of the Iberian sounding Aviva and will officially be given the fatal injection at midnight tonight. As an ex-employee of GA bonus (New Zealand Insurance) do I care? At...

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  • Recession latest – Cracks appear as Barrack Brown tonic bites

    Recession latest – Cracks appear as Barrack Brown tonic bites

    Now Insurance Blogger always keeps a sceptic eye on things while the other one is open to all sorts of suggestion. Combine them both and you’ve got a third eye that can come to some sort of rational analysis of whatever the problem or situation...

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