Iain Dale is wasting money, and needlessly polluting the environment. He is driving around in his new Audi on Britain's roads without a water booster. Figures given on the www.waterboost.co.uk website, show that he could save himself a lot of money, and cut his emissions at the same time. If his desire to save money is not strong enough, then maybe his environmental conscience will get the btter o...

To coincide with the signing of the £787bn US stimulus plan, the White House has launched recovery.gov where Americans can see exactly how and where that money is being spent. As more and more detail is released, US citizens will be able to "follow the money" and discover how it benefits them. The site promises to tell users which states are getting money, which congressional districts and ev...

Another year, another set of tax returns submitted. ( I do it a week early to allow some time for winding up my brother who will be thumping keyboards as servers crash on the 31st Jan ). But where does the money go ? Part of the answer looks like being provided by this very easy to use web site Where does My Money Go ? It appears to be in development - but for all you Barnett Formula fans out ther...

Today Scottish Widows has put out a report on savings. Amongst its recommendations are the need for 'incentives to save'. For once this isn't a financial services company calling for the Government to pay people to take out their products, instead they suggest a disregard of savings in respect of means-tested benefits.A good thing too. Plenty of stuff I have read suggests that financial incentives...

A year or so ago we only had to utter the words "new car" for a hundred financial institutions to be fighting for the right to lend us the money to buy an internal combustion engine in a shiny shell. They all had lots of money available for us to use, now they have none. Today I ask: where has all the money gone? If we scan the various prophecies of doom about the financial world we learn that ban...

If a major corporation in the defense industry makes their case for their product, we are interested. I don't want to see my tax money spent on a company that won't stand up for their product. Say what you want about Lockheed Martin, but we give them huge props here for one reason, Fred Moosally and several others from Lockheed Martin put themselves out there and sell their product to the American...

Smarter eco-design for energy using products could save £900m for the economy as well as protect the environment according evidence to be given to a new consultation launched by Defra. The consultation seeks views on how to implement minimum energy standards and energy labelling of high street products.

It is plain that the public purse needs a swift injection of cash. The question is where it will come from. Daniel Finkelstein’s column in this morning’s Times argues that the proposed Tory cuts and public service reform will save money in the long-term, but not immediately. He cites Peter Lilley’s 1995 pension reforms – the benefits of which the spendthrift Brown governmen...

The latest way DEFRA intends to save money: a £300 million "voluntary retirement" scheme to any DEFRA employee over 50 who wants to jump ship. There is much jostling on the decks. As one insider, quoted by the Evening Standard comments: "They can't believe their luck. There are retirement parties all the time stretching into next spring. It seems an odd way to save money but no one is c...

The combined impact of taxation and the withdrawal of benefits, a growing problem for benefit recipients, can be a deterrent to finding work or earning more money