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♫ Happy Birthday ♫..to the Credit Crunch!

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This is one birthday party that no one wants to attend; it is just over a year ago now that most people in the U.K. were spiralled into the web of deceit that brought down banks and bankers alike. I remember commenting 2 years ago that something was afoot when Citi-Bank wrote to me, and told me that they were cutting my credit limit whilst blaming it onto me. I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong as I always used to pay my credit bills on time every month. 12 months later the world, never mind the U.K., woke up to find out the truth.

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Top 10 tips to survive the credit crunch.

1. Get out of debt as quickly as possible. Having debt at a time like this is an extremely dangerous way to manage your finances. Take any excess income you can and start paying down your most expensive debt first and do as fast as possible.

2. Raise extra money anywhere you can. Go through your house when you do a deep clean and take anything including CDs, books, toys, broken electronics and anything else you can find and sell them on eBay. You might be amazed at how much money will be able to raise doing this.

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Britain slips into deflation

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This month, Britain officially slipped into deflation with the publication of the retail price index for March. This index showed a decline in the price of a basket of goods measured by the RPI of 0.4%. This basket of goods includes housing, wages and consumer goods. Not since 1960 has the UK suffered from deflation. However, this figure doesn’t tell the whole story. The measures which the government use to reflect price increases are constantly changing. Currently, food and energy costs are not included in this index but are included in the core inflation reading.

By the core measure of inflation, prices rose at an accelerated rate compared to February. In February, core inflation was running at 1.6% per annum while in March this rate increase to 1.7%.

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