Money System Archive

  • Boat insurance – Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans

    Boat insurance – Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    A Brief History of Insurance: Part 2 by Kris Oldland A brief history of Boat Insurance: Part Two: Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans: OK, so in the first article in this series we discovered that whilst those amazing Chinese chaps were out inventing...

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  • How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    Posted on July 18, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    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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  • Insurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt

    Insurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The Bank of England has just announced that the latest efforts at so called Quantitative Easing involves the injection of another £25 billion of made up money in the circular flow of money system, which means that since the recession Britain has generated £200 billion...

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