336: Broke the bank Monday 1 February 2010
Roman Road, London
“Public anger is to many bankers neither here nor there: they don’t care.”
source: Telegraph.co.uk
photo by Sam Oakley
235: Cash upfront Wednesday 9 September 2009
Rye Lane, Peckham, London
“You can use the calculator for loans from mainstream lenders such as banks and building societies, but it may not give accurate results for other types of loan, such as home credit, where the interest rate is typically much higher.”
source: Moneymadeclear
203: Nothing to see here Monday 27 July 2009
credit card bill
“Outstanding credit card debt in the UK has reached £54.4bn - a figure that has started to rise in recent months after falling back in the course of last year.”
source: BBC News
122: The numbers add up Friday 3 April 2009
BBC1
“Total yearly sales of National Lottery products are greater than the combined annual sales of Coca Cola, Warburton Bread, Walkers Crisps, Hovis Bread, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Nescafé, Andrex, Lucozade, Kingsmill Bread and Robinson’s Soft Drinks combined”
source: Camelot - ‘About the National Lottery’
098: Business as usual Monday 2 March 2009
The Mortgage People, Portbello High Street, Portobello
“The number of mortgages lent to house buyers fell last year to its lowest level since 1974, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has said … the CML expects that in 2009 new lending will fall to a level where it will be outstripped by people repaying their mortgages.”
source: BBC News
