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Estate agents prove adept at tanning your hide, wallet

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) April 3, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man There’s more than one way to skin a cat. I love this saying. I love people who live it. It’s an idiom used by those who don’t take no for an answer. They’ll find ways of making things happen. For […]

Ducking the risk of looking like a goose

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) March 22, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man Maybe it’s karma, or yin and yang. But opportunistic fortune seems headed my way! Yeah, baby! I feel it, because there’s been a 10-fold increase in the number of foreigners showing an interest in me and my financial security in […]

Not investing is just a recipe for ending up poor

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) For: March 5, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man Bored? Like a long, wet week, we’re charging up on six months of nothingness. No growth from the market since mid-September last year. It’s been up a bit, down a bit. The net result? Nothing. Ignoring dividends, the market’s […]

No need for banks to cry poor. They are laughing

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: February 22, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man In my 10 years of writing about the banking industry, I’ve been accused of being both a bank basher and a bank apologist. The criticisms usually flip flop between the two, so I’ve never been worried about it. And […]

Future’s not so super for toiling Gen Xers

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business) February 5, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man Berlin’s Wall takes a fall. Kurt Cobain ends it all. Oils’ release “Diesel and Dust”. Chris and Pixie Skase go bust. “Young Einstein’s” Yahoo Serious. Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious”. Yothu Yindi’s Yunupingu. Can you remember Kajagoogoo? Compulsory superannuation … erm … […]

It’s time for Westpac, Gail Kelly to take a beep test

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: January 25, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man It’s rare that a life opportunity comes without choice. And life without choice would be like … living in Cuba, in the bad old days, when the whole world was black and white. Some people’s lack of choice is […]

Self-control the key to financial security

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money? Or News?) For: January 11, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man A new year a whole new wad of money to look forward to blowing. Woo-hoo! No? So you’ve promised to do something sensible and begin a personal financial renovation this year. How’s that New Year’s resolution going […]

Unhedged hogs best position on rollercoaster ride

At a given point of any cycle, there’s bound to be a few markets with their heads in the stratosphere. Gold, for one, has never been this high. Chinese demand for raw materials means there might not be much left of WA inside a decade. The comeback market for 80s Australian rock stars is stubbornly […]

Game gets harder for planners

Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: November 30, 2009 Bruce Brammall Debt Man My grandmother used to refer to dodgy buggers as being “so crooked, they couldn’t lie straight in bed”. Usually, Nana was talking about the person across the table who’d just fleeced her in a hand of cards. Her game […]

Off your trolley to buy into a basket case

Debt Man column – The West Australian (News) For: November 13, 2009 Bruce Brammall Debt Man Once upon a time, there was an evil conglomerate. Oh, all right, it wasn’t so much evil, it just had a mega attitude problem that frustrated the hell out of everyone. An eternal under-achiever. Rubbish stock price. Awful profits. […]