The middle classes died a long time ago... - Merryn Somerset Webb

Merryn was a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she gained a first class degree in history & economics. She then became a Daiwa scholar and spent a year studying Japanese at London University. In 1992 Merryn moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public TV station. In 1993 she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg, where she stayed for 5 years. Returning to the UK in 1998, Merryn became a financial writer for The Week. Two years later, in 2000, MoneyWeek was launched and Merryn took the job of editor; she recently became MoneyWeek's Editor-in-chief. Merryn has published a book on personal finance for women, Love is Not Enough: The Smart Woman's Guide to Making (and Keeping) Money (HarperPress, 2007). She also has columns in the Financial Times, the Sunday Post and Saga magazine and has contributed to many other publications from Marie Claire and Woman & Home to the Spectator. Merryn is a regular and experienced TV and radio commentator on financial matters

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The middle classes died a long time ago...

The middle classes as we - or perhaps only our parents - remember them are no more. Today's long hours, lack of job security and endless financial troubles mean they morphed into a new kind of working class a good decade ago. To read more click here

Posted by Merryn Somerset Webb on 09/07/2010 at 09:51 AM | Permalink

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