Being the banker for shady international characters, money launderers and cyber criminals has got to be a profitable business, doesn’t it? Well, for the masterminds behind Liberty Reserve, it probably was. Until they got caught. It’s a bugger how that happens. There’s got to be an easier way to make money. Thankfully, I’m no economist. […]
It’s not my “elevator pitch”, or what I spout when someone at a barbecue asks me what I do. But the fact is simple: I deal in death. More precisely, I help people prepare for death at financially inconvenient times. Dying too early. Living too long. And having a cruddy time during that period when […]
Australia really deserves the moniker “Downunder”. We’re this little mixed up, backward, First World-like, paradise island that’s not easy to get to from anywhere. We’re light years from our major trading partners, which occasionally give us shipping pains. People are desperate to get here, but we’ve got boat people pains. We’ve got the climate and […]
Call it Tron, call it Narnia, call it Wayne’s World if you want. But for sure, last week we entered an economic dimension none of us have ever actually been to before. Official interest rates below 3 per cent. They haven’t been there for 53 years. Only those aged 70 or over, who had a […]
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Has there ever been a better time to have a mortgage? To owe a bank a big pile of money? Official interest rates are as low as they’ve ever been. Variable rate mortgages are close to rock bottom. Banks are practically giving away fixed rate loans (at under 5 per cent), if that’s what floats […]
If I could have just one super power, I think it might be … the power to tax! How cool would THAT be? Bit short of cash this month? Credit card crept away from you? Budget blown to smithereens and spending spinning out of control? Be cool. You can make everyone in the country chip […]
My doctor performed a few biopsies last week. Actually, he probably took dozens. But let’s focus on me for a second. On me, he gouged two. Literally, as I write this column, I’m hesitantly awaiting a phone call. He said there was a “one in thirty” chance of it being serious. “But doc, I’ve […]
Every now and then, little voices start talking to me. They tell me exciting things, but I’m a bit scared to listen. “Property, Debt Man, pin your ears back!” a ghost-like voice has suggested in a sultry tone recently. Almost instantaneously, I hear a second voice. And, inevitably, it’s arguing with the first voice. “Have […]
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