Patrick Edwards

A year at university: A fresher’s account

The single most important piece of advice I could impart to freshers is the need to budget. Even if you only divide your annual net income across thirty weeks and keep tabs on your purchases by drawing up a simple table in Excel, you will immediately grasp how little your...
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Posted Oct. 5, 2010

Warwick Economics Summit: LIVE

Follow live Twitter updates from the Warwick Economics Summit at [@boarmoney](http://twitter.com/boarmoney) or alternatively watch out for postings here
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Posted Feb. 20, 2010

Free Money Giveaway

From next Friday, Money will be releasing a podcast providing a round-up of all the week's economic issues that matter to you
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Posted Feb. 14, 2010

Two Penn’orth: Am I superstitious?

In heralding a new decade, 2010 already possesses one of those inexplicable psychological pangs – we don’t know why we feel that ‘change’ is in the air, but there is a sense that we’ve turned a corner. Of course the fallout of the credit crunch continues to take its toll,...
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Posted Jan. 19, 2010

Brighton Rock Bottom

Last month’s Labour Party conference should have given the government the opportunity to spell out more precisely what its – increasingly unlikely – fourth term would entail. Instead – perhaps, in fact because of this – details were scarce and policy suggestions were nothing more than unaffordable extensions to pre-existing...
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Posted Oct. 13, 2009

“Don’t worry, you’re not a loan!”

The single most important piece of advice I could impart to Freshers is the need to budget. Even if you only divide your annual net income across thirty weeks and keep tabs on your purchases by drawing up a simple table in Excel, you will immediately grasp how little your...
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Posted Oct. 7, 2009

2009 Budget Special: Students

Another bloody expense! If there’s one thing that’s sticking in students’ mind beside the extortionate rise in bus fares, it’s the two per cent rise in alcohol duties. Since last week, the price of a pint will go up by one pence, a bottle of wine by four pence and...
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Posted Apr. 27, 2009