When trying to figure out whether or not I can FIRE I’ve needed to understand just how much I spend (along with a few other numbers).  To ...

This post is a response to the brief exchange with Faustus on the last Gold Price in British Pounds post .  Today I’d like to attempt to ans...

Last week we had the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announce that annual inflation to October, according to the Retail Prices Index ...

As a person who is not in debt and is saving hard for Retirement I am very conscious of the need to protect the purchasing power of my Reti...

Today’s post looks at UK Inflation and specifically the Retail Prices Index (RPI) and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).  It is not the m...

So we now have the UK CPI at 4.5% and the RPI at 5.2%.   I haven’t blogged about the UK Inflation situation since my post back in August...

Today’s decision by the Bank of England to hold the Official Bank Rate at 0.5% for the 17th month in a row was so predictable that I nearly ...

I am still reading on blogs and in news articles many discussions on whether going forward we will see inflation or deflation. I might as we...

Today’s announcement that the Bank of England had held interest rates at 0.5% for the 16th month in a row plus decided to do no more quanti...

I’ve been suggesting for many months now and most recently here that the Bank of England want inflation which they think they can control. ...

The above chart shows the US Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) to April 2010 courtesy of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Year on year the US ...

The Office for National Statistics has reported the April 2010 UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) as 3.7% up from 3.4% and the UK Retail Price In...

The above chart shows the US Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) to March 2010 courtesy of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Year on year US CPI ...

The Bank of England this week held interest rates at 0.5% for the fourteenth month in a row. I’ve been speculating over the past few months ...

The Office for National Statistics has reported the February 2010 UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) as 3.0% down from 3.5% and the UK Retail Pri...

The above chart shows the US Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) to February 2010 courtesy of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Year on year US CP...

Today’s chart must be the most boring I have ever posted. This is because the Bank of England held interest rates at 0.5% for the thirteenth...

Picking up on Monday’s theme  I’d like to have a look at two further winners or losers of the current governments and Bank of England’s deci...

On Thursday of this week the Bank of England makes another Bank Rate decision which I fear will be a repeat of the last year which is a hold...

The above chart shows the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) to January 2010 courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Year on year inflation h...