SUMMARY: Five strategies for couples to even up super balances this year, if they can act quickly. Fatigue has set in. And some barely repressable anger. Treasurer Scott Morrison’s Budget on May 9 had better not have major super changes in it. The changes that got through parliament late last year […]
Huge financial disasters, by their very nature, come from positions where the greatest risks are taken. Sometimes, this is simply rampant stupidity. When a big punt is made and caution is thrown to the wind, along with research and due diligence. Idiocy on a grand scale. And, sometimes, everything was done right, but a little […]
The number of ways you can blow up large amounts of money very quickly is near endless. Owning race horses, a life high of drugs, playing blackjack casino and even Christmas shopping are almost sure-fire ways to do dough quickly. But, alas, I am inexperienced in these areas, so can’t […]
The internet is one of those points in time that will define generations. Like, where were you when Whitlam was sacked? When Princess Diana died? September 11? Do you remember life before Chuck Norris invented the internet? (Chuck already has every internet site in his brain. He created the […]
I’ve never been a protestor. I’ve never held aloft a banner, attended a march, or camped outside a building with a megaphone, demanding action, like, now. That’s not to say that I would never do it. I’ve just got this image that the people who do so are, well, hippies. (“What do we want? Naptime […]
There are some things in life I simply won’t do. There is an equal amount Mrs DebtMan also refuses to lift a finger on. Sometimes, this is simply demarcation. Lines have developed over the years. She won’t do some things because she knows I will, or she insists that it’s my job. And, equally, in […]
Is it possible to hold too much cash? If that sounds crazy, like a trick question, that’s because it is. And, therefore, the answer is the opposite of what you would believe it to be. Yes, it is possible to hold too much cash. Sure, we all love the folding stuff. The more you have […]
There is a group of people that, to the day I die, are going to confound me. But it’s mutual. I’ll never get them. And they’ll never understand me. Debt-haters. I’m not talking about those with a debt problem – where they’ve lost control of what they owe. I’m talking […]
Everyone loves a bargain. Something cheaper than it was a little while ago, or a bonus thrown into the purchase. End of year stocktake sales, flights outside of holiday peaks, end-of-line specials on cars, supermarket meat on a Sunday afternoon, shoe and suit sales … Me? Easy. Happy hours. Stamp in passport, basic beach bar, […]
Walk away. No winners here. Not even interesting conversation. Just the painful sound of your head banging against a brick wall. When it comes to investing, this affliction is most prevalent in the debate of “shares versus property”. People are often set on one, or the other. Sometimes, you could show facts being relied on […]
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