THE fantasy that the unprecedented binge in both consumer and state credit has been successfully dealt with has been rudely punctured in recent months.Read
SPEED appears to be something of an obsession in Finland. The country has produced more than its fair share of very talented (and very quick) rally and racing champions.Read
HAVING started the year brightly, the equity markets took on an uncertain note from mid-January. The reasons are partly economic and partly political.Read
MARTYN BEST co-founded Paver Smith with Dougal Paver in 2006. He is also chairman of Everton Tigers, vice-chairman of the Liverpool Society of Chartered Accountants, a trustee of the Everton Former Players Foundation and helps the NSPCC Business Group.Read
WHEN the epithet “struggling” was applied this week to the economic condition of his home town, it was always going to be the case that Liverpool Chamber of Commerce chief executive Jack Stopforth would jump to its defence.Read
FOR much of late 2008 and early 2009, world interest rates were being slashed to unprecedentedly low levels, in an attempt to relieve the burden of debts taken on by over-optimistic borrowers in the good times.Read
BEFORE the snow and ice turned the UK into a skating rink, the first few days of 2010 saw the news agenda firmly driven by our major political parties.Read
ALAN WOODS is director of accountants Woods Squared, in Birkenhead. Alan and his wife, Tracy, are the founders of Woods Squared, which was last year named Accounting Firm of the Year by accountancy body AVN, after just three years in business.Read
