Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: November 2, 2009 Bruce Brammall Debt Man Have you got a sordid past you want to disappear? Are there some misdemeanours you’d like zapped from the public record? Is there a festering sore on your reputation that you want erased? Well, you could write your own […]
Debt Man column – The West Australian (Business news) For: October 16, 2009 Bruce Brammall Debt Man We’re off and racing! It’s that time again. But we’re not talking anything as fun as the horses. No, ma’am, we’re talking interest rates, bank bashing and politicians speaking bollocks. When interest rates move, our elected representatives feel […]
Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: October 5, 2009 Bruce Brammall Debt Man During exciting moments in football, the mathematical probability is that roughly 49 per cent of the audience will roar and 49 per cent will groan. The other 2 per cent missed it because they were in the bar or […]
Every now and then you just want to applaud a gutsy move. Someone who does something against their own interests in the name of helping someone else. Examples would include Mel Gibson helping buddy Danny Glover off a booby-trapped dunny in Lethal Weapon 2 and the late Patrick Swayze taking on the job of cleaning […]
Life is about learning and most of us like to achieve those little milestones at our own pace. Some pick up things fast, some slow. And some, not at all. When it comes to drinking, I’m Sean Connery. I’ll “never say never again”, as doing so would threaten way too many social (and business) opportunities. […]
Amid the hail of economic gunfire, it will be little comfort to some Australians that some sunshine is trying to poke through. Banks are, selectively, lending again. Australia’s stockmarket is well off its bottom. Profits aren’t looking too bad. Inflation and interest rates are still low. And it all seems to have happened, as Con […]
A lot of people under 35 will unthinkingly answer the following question in the affirmative. Can you really cure Friday night’s hangover by going out and drinking hard enough on Saturday to get a second one? Surely, that’s only going to make Sunday morning even worse. But does it really matter? It’s now only Sunday […]
If there was an economic windsock, it would be blowing around in circles. Even if a direction was discernible right now, it would probably be flying the opposite way tomorrow. The messages in the news and from commentators are about as consistent as Mark Philippousis’s tennis career. (Any West readers able to spare ‘The Poo’ […]
Gather round. I want to tell you a sad story. It’s been a tough year for the rich. They haven’t had much reason to smile since about, oh, October 2007. Since then, they’ve faced an almighty beating from the stock market. (I haven’t seen a thrashing as memorable since one delivered by a Marist brother […]
It feels spooky out on the financial streets at the moment. A bit Twilight Zone – The Movie: “You want to see something really scary?” You can sense that, maybe, a Bad Moon Rising is just around the corner. A little over the hill, or beyond the horizon. It’s a little difficult to pinpoint exactly […]
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