The Credit Crunch and the Real Economy

Many thanks to Penny Brooks for highlighting this super resource on the BBC Magazine site that focuses on the local, high street impact of the credit crunch

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Credit Crunch Hotspot Quiz

This quiz on the credit crunch poses a random series of 10 questions based on images from the credit crunch.  We’ll add new questions as the story of the credit crunch develops.

Selling is the way to respond to a recession

Mike Southon’s piece in the FT this weekend focused on how successful entrepreneurs take advantage of the opportunities, not the threats, posed by a recession…

AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1 - Key Term Glossary

Our interactive glossary of key terms for AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1 is now available to access online…

Keynote Educational goes bust

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague last week discussing whether the educational market is “recession-proof”.  News that a leading provider of teacher and student events has gone bust makes me think that even the educational market is in for a very tough time in the next year or so.

Credit Crunch Jokes

The global financial system might be in meltdown, but that doesn’t stop us from sharing with you some of the best (and worst) credit crunch-related jokes…

Brace yourselves for a dangerous week

1800.a.m. UK time tomorrow (Monday morning) is the moment when we’ll get our first insights into just how tough the next week is going to be…

The Biz Quiz - 12 October 2008

After another quiet, uneventful week on the markets and in the business world, its time for our relaxing 10-question quiz on the business news…

Return of the paperless office

For the more youthful of you, I might need to explain that the ‘paperless office’ is something of a joke.  It’s a good example of our tendency to be pretty off the mark when it comes to predicting the future.  The arrival of computers was thought to mean that we wouldn’t need paper any more.  Of course, the opposite happened.

The Economist has a very interesting couple of articles on this topic.  It’s a reminder that technological change often has the power to surprise us.

Is now the time to buy?  Alan Sugar thinks so…

You can say one thing about plunging stock markets.  As shares become ever cheaper, there must be some bargains to be had out there.  It’s often said that amongst today’s wealthiest Americans are those whose families invested heavily in Wall Street after the great Crash of 1929.  When markets recover, some people will do very well indeed.  So there’s been a lot of interest in Alan Sugar’s purchase of 3.9% of Woolworths at a knock down price.

For sale - one entire nation (slightly chilled)

Gallows humour never goes amiss during troubled times.  So it comes as little surprise that the problems befalling Iceland have had the comics out in force.  Now, what I am bid for Iceland…

AQA AS Business Unit 1 - Practice Exam Papers

We’ve just completed a collection of three practice exam papers for the new AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1…

Starter activity - Mentoring Unlimited (Budgeted Profits)

Louis, Cheryl and Dannii are getting bored.  So they decide to start a business that plays to their particular strengths.  But should they have asked Cheryl to put the numbers together?

Funeral Directors will be ok, but many other businesses destined for life-support

An interesting angle on the impending cash flow crisis that is about to engulf much of corporate Britain.  Lloyds TSB believe that 10% of its corporate banking customers (i.e. those with bank loans or bank overdrafts) will be on special watch during 2009, as the number of insolvencies is expected to rise rapidly…

The Wall Street Musical Packed with Business Studies

Out of the bleak news from Wall Street and the global financial system comes this tongue-in-cheek musical from YouTube.  Which other musical features Porters Five Forces, the Boston Matrix, Quantitative Research and Excel?