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More than 400 Scots will go bankrupt every week this year. Photograph: Rex

Jeff Salway: Avoid lure of payday loans trap

SCOTS mired in money difficulties have been urged to seek help instead of getting trapped in a spiral of long-term debt by resorting to payday loans.

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Comment: What is there to ‘like’ about Facebook flotation?

FEW flotations have captured the public’s imagination in quite the same way as Facebook’s first day of trading on Friday. As one observer stated, it was rare for such an event to take place in which everyone has a stake in the outcome.

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Comment: Politicians should bow out of pensions

FORCING babies to find paid employment – or presumably forgo their right to be sick all over anyone close enough – seemed beyond the pale even for this government.

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Spain faces a deepening banking crisis, and this has left the countrys population fearful for their deposits. Photograph: AP

Comment: Pain in Spain a headache for everyone

TWO telephone calls out of the blue at the end of last week brought disturbing news. The first was from a well-connected source in Brussels; the second from a contact in Spain.

'Ive never thought of myself as a consumer  but of course we all are' (Getty)

Bill Jamieson: Mixed messages cloud the picture

WE’RE reversing. We’re slumping. We’re growing. We’re slowing. It’s a Double Dip. No it’s not. Yes it is.

Pick your way through the maze of conflicting data in the past week and you could go down in a spin with Signpost Sickness.

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Comment: Centrica shareholders have let the side down

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Alex Salmond will be looking to assuage the fears of business leaders that an independent Scotland would be less attractive to investors. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Terry Murden: Alex Salmond has the chance to impress big business

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond addresses the Institute of Directors Convention at the O2 Arena in London this week in what could mark a turning point in his relationship with big business.

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Hollande`s victory over Sarkozy sparked a sell-off in global markets. Picture: AP

Bill Jamieson: Chill winds could wreck UK recovery

‘We are not just flying through one of the stormiest and most turbulent periods in modern history, but flying blind’

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