Nice toy. Though I notice that if you try to cut debt interest payments you can't - which is correct - but are told that "If only you could change this. But as you've borrowed the money, you have to pay it back" - which is the wrong explanation: the expenditure item is debt interest, not debt repayment (governments almost never make net debt repayments, they just roll it over with new borrowing). An example of why no-one should ever bother reading the Grauniad's finance or business pages.
Maybe. It's definitely weird that schools don't have some basic money/ finance stuff in the core curriculum. But I doubt any politician has ever lobbied against it (or for it, either).
Some of us work in the private sector.
Quote from: LucyA on October 20, 2010, 08:18:29 pmQuoteMaybe. It's definitely weird that schools don't have some basic money/ finance stuff in the core curriculum. But I doubt any politician has ever lobbied against it (or for it, either).We do. Teenagers tend to be mildly interested, but see it as rather irrelevant to their lives. Really? I didn't know that. In what subject/ at what level?
QuoteMaybe. It's definitely weird that schools don't have some basic money/ finance stuff in the core curriculum. But I doubt any politician has ever lobbied against it (or for it, either).We do. Teenagers tend to be mildly interested, but see it as rather irrelevant to their lives.
QuoteHow much stuff do you remember of what you were taught at school, when it didn't seem as important to you as trying to snog the girl with freckles sitting next to you?Two words: boys' school
How much stuff do you remember of what you were taught at school, when it didn't seem as important to you as trying to snog the girl with freckles sitting next to you?
Blimey. How about the cost of money, interest rates ... that kind of thing?
Perhaps citizenship training with an exam for all over 18s who want to vote or claim benefits?Innit?
I found the fact that Vodafone have had a £6.9bn tax bill scrapped outrageous.