Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 8 April 2024 As kids get deeper into their teens, they give off bigger vibes that they really don’t want your help no more. What gives it away? The grunting? The groaning? All that time spent in their bedrooms? The smiles that only come out when they want something? Of […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 25 March 2024 In the big wide world of investing, there is nothing that discriminates between investors quite like cash. No, I’m not talking about how much of it one person has over the next person. (Some will say that’s discrimination, but this column isn’t going into the weeds on […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 11 March 2024 No matter where financial markets or economic cycles are at, pessimists and optimists abound in roughly even numbers. It’s like a zero-sum game. Sometimes the weight-of-numbers balance tips a bit towards the pessimists, sometimes the optimists. But over the medium term, it’s a near perfect balance. When […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 12 February 2024 Sometimes, some people just want a break from change. I get it. Some clean air to be able to consolidate and chill, before rules start moving again. Constant change can be tiring. Especially when it’s often the same obstacle that seem to get moved each year, almost […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 29 January 2024 Sometimes you’ve got to just rip the Band-Aid off. Too much time passes from when you start to think about a decision you know you need to make, or accept, and actually implementing that decision. Everyone has stuff in your life that, right now, you’re yet to […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 4 December, 2023 A friend of mine, about this time of year, sits down with his wife, cracks a bottle of wine, and they discuss: “Should I go one more trip around the sun?” The chat is about whether Bill will continue working for another year. He’s in his late […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 20 November, 2023 There’s a special level of zen required of a parent when trying to successfully teach a teenage child to drive. Those first few hours behind the wheel – driving around vacant car parks, teaching where controls are, the basics of moving, indicating to other drivers, simple turning […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 6 November, 2023 Have you been deluged by ads and commentary telling you a particular asset class is a screaming buy right now? If you do read some financial material online, and haven’t … you must have adjusted settings on your socials! The calls started getting louder a few months […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 23 October, 2023 It’s kinda nice to hear a big bank boss have a bit of a bitch about his competitors. Accusing them of writing “uneconomic” loans that were “destroying value”, Commonwealth Bank’s Matt Comyn last week admitted he’d lost market share during a pricing war earlier this year. “Oh, […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 9 October, 2023 Debt Man There’s little harder than reprogramming your brain to do what it really doesn’t want to naturally do. Telling your brain to say “go”, when every muscle in your noggin is saying “no” … when everyone around you is saying to do one thing, making the […]
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