Should you buy euros/dollars now before the EU referendum vote?
The pound has tanked in recent months. Last year £1 bought you as much as €1.43, now it’s just €1.26. Against the dollar, last year’s high was $1.58, now it’s just $1.42. Some of this is on the back of the uncertainty about the EU referendum. Back in March I wrote a blog responding to the huge number of questions about the...
Citizens Advice launches the (gulp) ‘Martin Lewis Fund’
Citizens Advice is an amazing charity of professionals and volunteers who help people with debt, legal, consumer rights and a range of other issues. This week the organisation is announcing it’s setting up the ‘Martin Lewis Fund’ using money from a recent donation I made, and I thought it’d be good to explain what it’s doing. And...
How to vote in the EU referendum
It’s the biggest consumer decision any of us will ever make. It affects our economy, foreign policy, immigration policy, security and sovereignty. Our vote on whether the UK should leave the EU will reverberate through our lifetimes, and those of our children and grandchildren. If you’ve already made up your mind how to vote, good. I’m...
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