You may have missed this last week…many people did, for various reasons. Some reasons being they don’t understand it, they don’t want to understand it and/or they don’t think it is relevant to their lives! But on the contrary it is! What I am talking about?

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Yesterday I was reading an online article about the UK property market and how it is set for the biggest slump in 50 years. Then this morning reading my daily dose of Money Week the key article happened to be on property – ‘Britain’s housing market is an unexploded economic bomb’, in which, according to Halifax, ‘Uk house prices saw their biggest fall in 18 months in April’.

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So, who saw the programme on the UK broadcast channel – Channel 4 last week Thursday 11^th November? It was all about the UK’s debt level and why the austerity cuts, although necessary are not going to resolve our debt problem, as explained in the documentary (see below for the link).

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Quantitative Easing, a term that is becoming more frequent in our everyday vocabulary as the  economic purfication continues across the globe; - the financial situation in Ireland is coming to a head with the question being asked ‘which EU country next’? It is simply not a question of if but when! On the other side of the pond, the US is gearing up for another round of money printing, otherwise known as quantitative easing, and as we know when America sneezes the world, especially the UK – where I am based, catches it cold! As such one should take the time to understand what QE means  and  how it effects us as paying tax members.

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Not for a while yet?! Today the UK Government announced their cuts to the public sector as part of the austerity package for the next 4 years. These cuts are due to the last recession and the consequently stagnation of the global economy. These cuts will affect everyone so it is important to keep abreast of what is going on, irrelevant if you want to become financially savvy or not!  For further information on these cuts, click here.

As a consequence I thought I would write this piece in order to further educate you on the importance of understanding what Inflation, Deflation and Hyperinflation is, and how each one can, and will, affect our economy, our lives and our money.

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