Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) January 21, 2011. Not sure if you Money returns on Jan 24 or not. Bruce Brammall Debt Man Gerry Harvey, cheers to your recent brain implosion! You’ve just shouted me 10 free cases of beer. I think Gerry suffered what I’d call a “Fisherman’s Friend” moment last […]

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) January 7, 2011. Bruce Brammall Debt Man Some things – for example, what you look like when you enter this world – are beyond your control. At birth, apparently, I had a flat head. My Dad claims it was flat from my eyebrows to the back of […]

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) December 24, 2010. Bruce Brammall DebtMan Dear Santa, You’re from a place that’s cold, right, so you’ll understand this warning. “You’re skating on thin ice, dude.” I know you don’t control everything. But you are in control of Christmas. And the national psyche generally during December. And […]

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) For: December 10, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man No need to mark this down as one of 2010’s bold predictions. I certainly don’t need to channel the ghost of Nostradamous to say that in exactly 15 days, you will wake up poorer than you are today. With […]

It’s chaos out there, Batman! The tiniest things are causing profoundly disturbing events. The “butterfly effect” is thriving. It’s an outside chance to ruin my Christmas. Aaaarggggh! The butterfly effect, for those who don’t know, is part of a branch of science known as “chaos theory”. The theory goes that the flap of a butterfly’s […]

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) For: November 12, 2010. Stay calm for ‘National Smack a Bank Day!’ Bruce Brammall Debt Man My parents had a rule about handing out smacks. They would never dole out the punishment when they were still angry. The reason was that they didn’t want my brother Dirk […]

Superannuation has always been such a promising child – that junior at the sports carnival with awesome potential. A talent that made you tingle. You didn’t have to watch it for long to see that it could be anything and everything to everyone. It could both be a great wealth-creation dream for sparkly eyed go-getters […]

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) For: October 15, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man It’s time to admit that I don’t think I’d make a very good traditional soldier. I’m not too good with blood and guts. Not that I get queazy, just that I’m no fan of “ER” or “RPA” because people’s […]

It sounds about as credible as a Tiger Woods sermon on chastity or David Hasselhoff writing a how-to handbook on sobriety. Or maybe it’s more like the wolf dressed up as grandma in “Little Red Riding Hood”. You know, so smugly dishonest that you can see the animal that wants to eat you alive drooling. […]

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) For: September 17, 2010. This column should be legalled. My mobile is 0434-024-274 Bruce Brammall Debt Man We all know that money is a honeypot for the greedy, a magnet that attracts the naive and a beacon of light that attracts the stupid like moths. I’ve been […]