This Is Money: How rich do you feel - and does a £100,000 salary still make you wealthy?

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Georgie Frost

This Is Money: How rich do you feel - and does a £100,000 salary still make you wealthy?

Georgie Frost
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This is Money

This Is Money: How rich do you feel - and does a £100,000 salary still make you wealthy?
How much spare cash do you have to spend? A new index shows we typically have £836 in disposable income each month. That’s the amount of money you have left over to spend or save after taxes and bills have been paid, according to comprehensive research. Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce talk income and ask — does a £100,000 annual salary really not make workers feel wealthy anymore? The annual list of happiest and unhappiest towns to live in Britain has been released, with Slough in Berkshire being labelled the most miserable. Is that a fair tag for any town? Bitcoin topped $100,000 for the first time. It soared in the wake of Donald Trump's election. So, have the crypto evangelists been proved right, can you still make money from bitcoin and what other coins are worth looking into? Lastly, wood stoves are back in the news. What are the rules around them - and are they really a polluting menace?

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Topics: Savings, Family Finance (in Personal Finance); Bitcoin (in Technology)


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