Stretching a pound, bouncing a cheque, even spinning a coin - it seems like cash is in perpetual motion. Follow the links between the global economy and your personal finances.
Cash box
Get to grips with your cash - take some tips from our pound-wise trio in you and your money.
Don't cashback in anger
Certain thing
Introduced to fight Bonaparte, Jane Frecknell-Hughes explains why, all these years later, we're still paying income tax.
Risk and reward
Our trip through history takes us from Jane Austen through Joe Lyons. Janette Rutterford offers a brief history of investment.
What money does to us
Companies are increasingly vulnerable to powerful financial institutions seeking short tem profit. Pauline Gleadle examines the ins and outs of financialisation.
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Midweek blues
Martin Upton explains why it wasn't only George Soros for whom it was a far-from-Black Wednesday.
Meltdown
Devendra Kodwani looks to the history of the Indian cotton industry to consider what we can learn from the history of business collapses.
Slowing down
Can we ease the pain of the downturn by using lessons from the past? Malcolm Prowle guides us through the recession.
Sustainable futures
It's a question of when, not if, oil will run out. What does that mean for the planet? Can we live without oil?
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Doing better than making do
Making money in a depressed stock market - is it possible to get rich in a recession?
Taking it further
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