Posted on March 18, 2008 by robertkyriakides
The financial markets are in turmoil. Some banks are going through difficult times, as recent happenings at the Northern Rock and Bear Sterns demonstrate. Some analysts fear that the worse is yet to come as US dollar rates fall and interest rates throughout the world are turning down, producing lower returns on investment.
If you [...]
Filed under: Northern Rock, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, genersys, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: affect on house prices, bear sterns, ethical investment, falling rates, financial turmoil, HIPs, home information packs, how to calculate return in onvestment for a soalr therm, payback | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 6, 2008 by robertkyriakides
I decided in October last year to “blog” about the environment and have posted articles almost every day since then. I called this “Ideas for the Environment” because ideas about improving life sometimes turn into real improvements and without the ideas there will be no improvements.
Filed under: Alistair Darling, Hilary Benn, Nicholas Stern, Northern Rock, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, genersys, gordon brown, heat, microgeneration, parliament, pollution, solar, solar energy, tax | Tagged: call for evidence on renewable heat, government distractions, low carbon building programme, Stern Report, whitehall shelves | No Comments »
Posted on January 23, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Alistair Darling has got us in a big mess. Somehow, we all have invested over £2,000 each in the Northern Rock Bank, without knowing it. Mr Darling together with Gordon Brown decided to bail out the failed bank with a defective business plan. It was such a shame that the government appointed regulators operating under [...]
Filed under: Alistair Darling, Northern Rock, genersys, gordon brown, solar panels | Tagged: Alistair Darling Northern Rock, Blair's argument about Iraq similar to Darling's about, failed bank, hiring the Prime Minister, investing in renewables, Richard Branson | 5 Comments »
Posted on December 20, 2007 by robertkyriakides
Gordon Brown has finally admitted it. He has not ruled out nationalising the Northern Rock. When you walk down a path putting one foot in front of another you should know where the path leads. When he and his chum Alistair Darling decided to rescue the bank, rather than the money of depositors of the [...]
Filed under: Alistair Darling, Northern Rock, gordon brown, grants, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: Alistair Darling, gordon brown, Lord Truscott, low carbon building programme, microgeneration, Northern Rock | No Comments »
