Review of the year - August 2012

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As most of the country sat glued to their television sets watching the Olympic Games in London, the UK economy was certainly not on a path to gold at the start of August.

Talk of the double dip recession was rife, and Nationwide released figures showing that house prices had fallen back to May 2006 levels.

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