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Survival guide for the (next) recession

Funny thing about recessions. They tend not to happen often enough, or for long enough, to learn valuable lessons from them. Once a generation isn’t regularly enough to get used to them, let alone to really get to enjoy them. They might happen once when you’re 20. And then you don’t get another one until […]

What do you think your life is worth

Life’s “X factor” is provided by the stuff that doesn’t happen everyday. The unpredictable. As a percentage, probably 90-95 per cent of our time is spent doing mundane tasks – sleeping, eating, showering, driving, exercising, chatting, shopping and working. (Though Debt Man doesn’t waste too much of his life exercising.) That means most of our […]

How to spot a fake – it will revert to mean

It’s a sad fact that so many great things in life that seem so real turn out to be so fake. And it’s us poor punters who are usually last to catch on. Finally finding out only make us feel the right twit. TakeMilliVanilli. How was the record-buying public to know thatRobPilatusand Fab Morvan had […]

Give yourself a sporting chance, ditch dumb debt

If January really has a collective cohesion acrossAustralia, it’s sport on the TV. As if we needed another reason to slack off during the January heatwaves … or to escape shark attacks on our beaches … we’ve got international cricket and tennis running almost from the first day to the last. Sure, sport is all […]

Stiff upper lip, investors! The bottom is in sight

Stiff upper lip, investors. Keep it together. The end is in sight. Worst case scenario: Only 10 more sleeps. But Christmas is a time for optimism. So let’s look at it this way – there’s only six more trading days to go (and two of those are half days!) After that, investors, 2008 – one […]