Expert views on how declining interest rates are affecting savers
Record
low interest rates could equal massive losses for savers this year. As The Bank
of England offers the lowest lending rate in history, people are starting to
wonder, what now?
The stock market crash pales into insignificance
compared to the crash in interest rates, says independent financial advisor
Philip Pearson of P&P Invest. This will directly affect income for savers.
Now and then
Over the past five years, interest rates have been
on a rollercoaster. They rose to their peak last year, when the best current
accounts were offering a return of 7%. This has now fallen to around 2.75%,
says Philip.
Currently the best equivalent account offers 3.5%
interest. So if you put ?,000 away, that s ?5 over the year, not including tax.
Five years ago the best account averaged 5% interest a total of ?0 a year,
minus tax.
The future
Some analysts suggest there may be a
further series of interest cuts on the way, with rates not set to rise until mid
2010.
Philip agrees, saying: It s likely that interest rates will
weaken during this year should the Bank of England move to further stimulate the
economy. This will only lead to even lower rates for savers, with many accounts
providing a return of less than 1%. This low interest rate environment may
continue over a prolonged period should the world remain in recession.
Protect your interests
It s a good idea to take a pro-active
approach towards your savings and seek advice in order to protect them against
inflation over the long term.
Dennis Hall, of Yellowtail Financial
Planning, adds that decreasing interest rates will have a significant impact on
some of the most vulnerable members of society. Anyone who relies on interest,
typically the retired, will have already seen a reduction in their income
levels. This could lead people to adopt savings and investment strategies which
put them at higher levels of risk.
People should ensure any money put
into a bank offering higher interest rates, is covered by the Financial Services
Compensation Scheme (FSCS). This covers you up to ?0,000, if the bank goes
bust.
There s still hope
Borrowers who are not on fixed-rate
mortgages, however, are now reaping the rewards of lower repayments. And that
extra cash can be used to build up your savings. Because of this, Dennis reports
there has actually been a slight upswing in the amount of savings within UK
households.
Five years ago, UK households were saving 4% of their
income, he says. Then, at the height of the property bubble, when people were
borrowing heavily, that fell to nearly minus 2%. We were spending more than we
earned. But by the beginning of 2009, the savings ratio had returned to positive
territory and was approaching 2%.
So there is a slight silver lining
after all.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Edgar Alan Poe- A Man Of Secrecy_39686
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 as Edgar Poe. He was the
second son to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe. Both parents were actors, and
shortly after Poe抯 birth, his father deserted his family around 1810. Edgar
became an orphan before the age of three years, when his mother died on December
8, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia at the age of twenty-four years. His father died
at the age of twenty-seven years old. After his mother抯 death, the childless
couple, John and Frances Allan, took in Poe; his paternal grandparents took in
brother William Henry; and foster parents cared for sister Rosalie. Allan was a
strict and unemotional tobacco merchant and his wife was overindulgent. Poe was
educated by the Allan抯 aid, in private academies, excelling in Latin, in writing
verse and declamation. However, regardless of his education,J12,
he was looked down upon by the upper class of society,replica uggs, perhaps because Poe was
never legally adopted by the Allan抯, nonetheless he was regarded as an outsider
by the Richmond elite. However, being the child of former actor抯 could have also
added to his reputation of not fitting in with Richmond抯 culture at that
time.
The loss of his mother at an early age definitely affected Poe, 揟he angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of 慚other挃 (To My Mother). In Tamerlane, he not only wrote about his father,fake rolex watches, but he wrote about his mother too. He had more respect for his mother than he did for his father. In Tamerlane he speaks much nicer of his mother. 揙, she was worthy of all love! Love ?as in infancy was mine ?慣was such as angel minds above Might envy; her young heart the shrine on which my every hope and thought厰 (Tamerlane). He thought of life with his mother and how it might have been.
In 1831 Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Maria Clemm. There he fell in love and married her daughter and his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was not even fourteen at the time. Ten years later she also died of tuberculosis. He dearly loved his wife and after she died his life just went to pieces. In 揟he Raven? the character is morning over the death of 揕enore?when a raven visits him. Poe used the raven because it is a bird that feeds on dead flesh ?a symbol of death. 揟hy God hath lent thee ?by these angels he hath sent thee Respite ?and Nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!?(The Raven). Lenore is thought of to be a representation of Poe抯 deceased wife Virginia. He did not want to get over the loss of his wife. 揕eave my loneliness unbroken! ?quit they bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take they form from off my door!?(The Raven). In the poem, To My Mother, Poe writes about his own mother taking care of Virginia in heaven and becoming her mother as well. The death and mourning of his wife did,chanel unisex watches, in fact, come out in his writing. Poe is very lonely at this point in his life and misses his wife Virginia. 揊or 憁id the earnest cares and woes That crowd around my earthly path, (Sad path, Alas, where grows Not even a lonely rose!)?(To One Departed). Death is a time in life that scares Poe and he thinks of it as being evil, because the two women he loved dearly died. He did not always think of death as being an evil thing. In Tamerlane, Poe knew that death was a part of life and he seemed content with the idea of dying. 揊ather, I firmly do believe ?I know ?for Death, who comes for me? Else how, when in the holy grove?(Tamerlane).
Over the years, Poe抯 works have endured much criticism as well as much praise. Many professionals who have researched Poe抯 life and his writings feel that many of his writings strongly show reflections on Poe抯 real life. One critic and friend wrote, 揚oe抯 attraction to the problem of death is so conspicuous that the reticence of modern criticism on the subject seems inexplicable?(Kennedy 3). Various critics believed his interests in such dark subjects were due to early traumatic experiences (5). Many modern critics of Poe fail to realize that although Poe抯 tales took an unusual perspective, at the time, death was looked at as being an elaborate celebration, it wasn抰 more acceptable, but it was more of a subject of quiet fascination (17). Kennedy also wrote, 揑 have never known, nor read of anyone, whose life so curiously illustrated that two fold existence of the spiritual and the carnal disputing the control of the man, which has often been made the theme of fiction. His was debauched by the most groveling appetites and exalted by the richest conception of genius?(Bohner 197). Poe was forever being misunderstood in his words on paper. He was perceived as being a lonely dark man, but inside his spirit, he had a burning desire to be loved.
Edgar Allan Poe has a way with words and a pen. The beauty he bestowed to the literary world has touched the hearts of many, mine included. Since Poe抯 short stories first began to appear in the 1830抯, readers have been intrigued by the nature of the man or the mind that produced them. Critics still wonder today if Poe was demonic or demented as the protagonists of his horror tales, and as analytical or psychic as the heroes of his detective and mystery stories. Contrary to popular critics legends of alcoholism, Poe was neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict, though he did struggle during much of his adult life against a tendency to drink heavily during periods of depression and anxiety. Poe is a highly complex character and was capable of the strictest artistic control and intellectual insight, at other times suffering from emotional instability and dependence.
Poe抯 writing helped him cope with his troubles and explore new territory in literature. His interest in the supernatural, retribution, and perverse cause them to be included in his burial motifs; therefore sustaining his interest. The supernatural is the phenomena of the unexplained and Poe was overwhelmed by it抯 mystique. With this comes an atmosphere of mystery and arousal of fear. To Poe, death in itself became the supreme mystery. Poe illustrates his views of the supernatural in The Black Cat. Not only does this fictional tale keep his readers on edge with fear, but it also keeps them guessing about the author抯 state of mind that wrote it. Poe抯 intrigue in the supernatural and reincarnation may have been in that of his own immortality. Many of Poe抯 literary works deal with the source of wickedness as depicted in The Black Cat. He uses perversity to shock, and disgust the reader hoping to bring the reader to a different level of cognition. Some literary critics have portrayed him as being a true 搒ociopath? and psychotic; however, I believe their judgment to be unfounded. It抯 true Poe had many problems, and I feel what he put on paper to be from the intellectual mind of a genius! Edgar Allan Poe was born to this world a century too soon. He was misunderstood in every way throughout his life. His only longing in life was to be loved, only to have that fulfillment ripped away twice in his life, first his mother and than his wife Virginia. Clearly these events created so deep an impact on Poe that his writings reflect a tendency of lonely, desperate, and erratic tones, which parallel the nature of his behaviors.
The standard trademark of Poe抯 writings is that it evokes disturbing images and emotions, which instill a sense of loneliness. He has the ability to create a mirror image of himself in every short story and poem. The sadness, which plagued Poe throughout his life, laid the framework for all of his writings. Without such a motivation, Poe may have created equally beautiful works yet they would not have instilled a sense of the life he led so clearly. They leave behind a photographic image of the man he was!
Poe抯 free and out of the ordinary style is very successful in incorporating the supernatural, perverse, and retribution into his work. He maintains his interest as well as the reader抯 by including subjects that are not prevalent. It is shocking, disturbing, and challenging to read. Some of Poe抯 literature has obvious relations to his own life, and how he coped with the problems that faced him. Having problems in ones life can escalate the soul to accomplish great things as he did. Poe抯 lifestyle is very much a part of style!
According to Vincent Buranelli抯 Edgar Allan Poe: 揈ven though Poe is often looked upon as a gifted psychopath who is describing with consummate artistry his personal instabilities and abnormalities the fact remains that his superiority is more than a matter of art. There is a violent realism in his macabre writings unequaled by the Americans who worked in the same genre?(17). I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, 揚oe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives?(7).
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 outside a voting place in Baltimore. The cause of death remains unknown. He lived and died as a man of mystery and his life is as mysterious today as it was when he lived it. 揟he mystery of Poe the man and the artist has fascinated biographers?(Ljungguist 591). It was because of his life experiences by economic troubles, being hurt by his enemies, and haunted by nightmares and visions, that Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of America抯 greatest poets, short-story writers, and literary critics. 揧et out of the very frustrations and failures of his personal life came his artistic successes?(591+). In direct response to his direct concerns as a reviewer and censor, William Carlow Williams asserts, Poe developed a firm sense of literary construction and method: 揌is concern, the apex of his immaculate attack, was to detach a 憁ethod?from the smear of common usage梚t is the work of nine tenths of his critism?(221). Edgar Allan Poe was in fact born before his time!
The loss of his mother at an early age definitely affected Poe, 揟he angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of 慚other挃 (To My Mother). In Tamerlane, he not only wrote about his father,fake rolex watches, but he wrote about his mother too. He had more respect for his mother than he did for his father. In Tamerlane he speaks much nicer of his mother. 揙, she was worthy of all love! Love ?as in infancy was mine ?慣was such as angel minds above Might envy; her young heart the shrine on which my every hope and thought厰 (Tamerlane). He thought of life with his mother and how it might have been.
In 1831 Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Maria Clemm. There he fell in love and married her daughter and his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was not even fourteen at the time. Ten years later she also died of tuberculosis. He dearly loved his wife and after she died his life just went to pieces. In 揟he Raven? the character is morning over the death of 揕enore?when a raven visits him. Poe used the raven because it is a bird that feeds on dead flesh ?a symbol of death. 揟hy God hath lent thee ?by these angels he hath sent thee Respite ?and Nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!?(The Raven). Lenore is thought of to be a representation of Poe抯 deceased wife Virginia. He did not want to get over the loss of his wife. 揕eave my loneliness unbroken! ?quit they bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take they form from off my door!?(The Raven). In the poem, To My Mother, Poe writes about his own mother taking care of Virginia in heaven and becoming her mother as well. The death and mourning of his wife did,chanel unisex watches, in fact, come out in his writing. Poe is very lonely at this point in his life and misses his wife Virginia. 揊or 憁id the earnest cares and woes That crowd around my earthly path, (Sad path, Alas, where grows Not even a lonely rose!)?(To One Departed). Death is a time in life that scares Poe and he thinks of it as being evil, because the two women he loved dearly died. He did not always think of death as being an evil thing. In Tamerlane, Poe knew that death was a part of life and he seemed content with the idea of dying. 揊ather, I firmly do believe ?I know ?for Death, who comes for me? Else how, when in the holy grove?(Tamerlane).
Over the years, Poe抯 works have endured much criticism as well as much praise. Many professionals who have researched Poe抯 life and his writings feel that many of his writings strongly show reflections on Poe抯 real life. One critic and friend wrote, 揚oe抯 attraction to the problem of death is so conspicuous that the reticence of modern criticism on the subject seems inexplicable?(Kennedy 3). Various critics believed his interests in such dark subjects were due to early traumatic experiences (5). Many modern critics of Poe fail to realize that although Poe抯 tales took an unusual perspective, at the time, death was looked at as being an elaborate celebration, it wasn抰 more acceptable, but it was more of a subject of quiet fascination (17). Kennedy also wrote, 揑 have never known, nor read of anyone, whose life so curiously illustrated that two fold existence of the spiritual and the carnal disputing the control of the man, which has often been made the theme of fiction. His was debauched by the most groveling appetites and exalted by the richest conception of genius?(Bohner 197). Poe was forever being misunderstood in his words on paper. He was perceived as being a lonely dark man, but inside his spirit, he had a burning desire to be loved.
Edgar Allan Poe has a way with words and a pen. The beauty he bestowed to the literary world has touched the hearts of many, mine included. Since Poe抯 short stories first began to appear in the 1830抯, readers have been intrigued by the nature of the man or the mind that produced them. Critics still wonder today if Poe was demonic or demented as the protagonists of his horror tales, and as analytical or psychic as the heroes of his detective and mystery stories. Contrary to popular critics legends of alcoholism, Poe was neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict, though he did struggle during much of his adult life against a tendency to drink heavily during periods of depression and anxiety. Poe is a highly complex character and was capable of the strictest artistic control and intellectual insight, at other times suffering from emotional instability and dependence.
Poe抯 writing helped him cope with his troubles and explore new territory in literature. His interest in the supernatural, retribution, and perverse cause them to be included in his burial motifs; therefore sustaining his interest. The supernatural is the phenomena of the unexplained and Poe was overwhelmed by it抯 mystique. With this comes an atmosphere of mystery and arousal of fear. To Poe, death in itself became the supreme mystery. Poe illustrates his views of the supernatural in The Black Cat. Not only does this fictional tale keep his readers on edge with fear, but it also keeps them guessing about the author抯 state of mind that wrote it. Poe抯 intrigue in the supernatural and reincarnation may have been in that of his own immortality. Many of Poe抯 literary works deal with the source of wickedness as depicted in The Black Cat. He uses perversity to shock, and disgust the reader hoping to bring the reader to a different level of cognition. Some literary critics have portrayed him as being a true 搒ociopath? and psychotic; however, I believe their judgment to be unfounded. It抯 true Poe had many problems, and I feel what he put on paper to be from the intellectual mind of a genius! Edgar Allan Poe was born to this world a century too soon. He was misunderstood in every way throughout his life. His only longing in life was to be loved, only to have that fulfillment ripped away twice in his life, first his mother and than his wife Virginia. Clearly these events created so deep an impact on Poe that his writings reflect a tendency of lonely, desperate, and erratic tones, which parallel the nature of his behaviors.
The standard trademark of Poe抯 writings is that it evokes disturbing images and emotions, which instill a sense of loneliness. He has the ability to create a mirror image of himself in every short story and poem. The sadness, which plagued Poe throughout his life, laid the framework for all of his writings. Without such a motivation, Poe may have created equally beautiful works yet they would not have instilled a sense of the life he led so clearly. They leave behind a photographic image of the man he was!
Poe抯 free and out of the ordinary style is very successful in incorporating the supernatural, perverse, and retribution into his work. He maintains his interest as well as the reader抯 by including subjects that are not prevalent. It is shocking, disturbing, and challenging to read. Some of Poe抯 literature has obvious relations to his own life, and how he coped with the problems that faced him. Having problems in ones life can escalate the soul to accomplish great things as he did. Poe抯 lifestyle is very much a part of style!
According to Vincent Buranelli抯 Edgar Allan Poe: 揈ven though Poe is often looked upon as a gifted psychopath who is describing with consummate artistry his personal instabilities and abnormalities the fact remains that his superiority is more than a matter of art. There is a violent realism in his macabre writings unequaled by the Americans who worked in the same genre?(17). I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, 揚oe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives?(7).
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 outside a voting place in Baltimore. The cause of death remains unknown. He lived and died as a man of mystery and his life is as mysterious today as it was when he lived it. 揟he mystery of Poe the man and the artist has fascinated biographers?(Ljungguist 591). It was because of his life experiences by economic troubles, being hurt by his enemies, and haunted by nightmares and visions, that Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of America抯 greatest poets, short-story writers, and literary critics. 揧et out of the very frustrations and failures of his personal life came his artistic successes?(591+). In direct response to his direct concerns as a reviewer and censor, William Carlow Williams asserts, Poe developed a firm sense of literary construction and method: 揌is concern, the apex of his immaculate attack, was to detach a 憁ethod?from the smear of common usage梚t is the work of nine tenths of his critism?(221). Edgar Allan Poe was in fact born before his time!
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