the wherewithal

With banks offering near zero interest on current accounts, stuffing it under the mattress (done properly of course) makes more sense than ever….this from The Guardian:

A bed company has come up with a novel way of encouraging savers to - literally - stick their money under the mattress. Feather & Black has made a divan bed with a safe hidden in its base which it hopes will encourage people to “revert to the old-fashioned methods of saving”. Managing director Robbie Feather says: “Confidence in banks has hit an all-time low and fears of a recession crime wave have been raised by the home secretary.” However, the price of the bed will not appeal to penny pinchers - a double costs £949 and a single £769.

This is the blog of Joe Deville, a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. To mark my 90 day move away from Goldsmiths and to the COI, Columbia, I’ve decided to finally start that blog that I’ve been meaning to start for too long now.

As should be clear from the title above, this is a site that will reflect my research interests in money, credit/debt and sociological theory. And, indeed, anything else that springs to mind.

More soon… For now, a suitably snow-capped picture of my new (academic) home.

Fayerweather, Columbia University