Hey everyone,

Busy, busy, busy that’s all I can say. Good news today when I popped down to the post office to collect my mystery package - it was paperback copies of the book ‘Defeat Student Debt - The Wealthystudent.co.uk guide to making the most out of university life’ and (I may be biased!) but it looks great.

This coming week we’ll have a new email format coming up and we’ll also be letting people know the winners of the writing competition. Some of you guys have your writing in the book and we’ll be letting everyone know who those people are very soon.

Things are gearing up for a big launch in September once we get this awful summer weather out of the way - I hope you guys have gone on holiday somewhere nice this year. I recommend Greece for 7 nights of sun, sea, sand and sandwiches.

With this gearing up we are looking for a fabulous team of writers and we’re asking you to join this Facebook group if you’re interested. See you there!

I saw the James Caan from the BBC’s dragons den a couple of nights ago on Newsnight discussing or not whether there was going to be a recession and what should be done to stop it.

All things are pointing to a recession at the moment…

• Sinking house prices
• High energy costs
• High food costs
• High oil costs
• Banks won’t lend money for mortgages
• The employment market is slowing

and more things besides. I agreed with what James was saying in that the government must help us out here. If the government don’t want a recession then they must ‘ease the pinch’ on the average British person right now. It’s time to start cutting tax on energy and petrol and place these taxes elsewhere.

I personally have the viewpoint that there is so much wastage by the government that many millions of taxpayers money is virtually ‘lost’ due to poor allocation of the money or the money is not used to its full extent.

Recession won’t hit students so bad because the students will get the same amount of money regardless. The only thing to hit students bad (as I have said before) is these top up fees, high energy costs and rising food costs.

This is partly why this site is here. To help you guys out a bit more!

Take care for now