I know in advance I’ll draw some laughs (the ‘at’ kind, not the ‘with’ kind) due to this post but I do think it’s relevant. Today I am ...

Imagine a phoenix rising from the flames or whatever it is that helps you to rationalise the need for something getting destroyed so it...

There is talk about the property bubble, and now an oil and gold bubble. Commodity prices have had a massive bull run, so will does thi...

I had the pleasure of being on Newstalk last week with Eamon Keane and during our brief chat I had mentioned that banks are lending out...

If you have never bought a house then all the talk you will hear about mortgages might be fairly confusing and even frightening. Back i...

Sometimes I write articles that are inflammatory, today’s is of that ilk, I want to point out some of the upsides to Negative Equity. T...

When you hear people talking about ‘A Billion’ be it a Bank talking about a billion in write-downs, or a politician talking about a bil...

On Friday the 28th of March there was a massive turn out for the MoneyMate and Investor Magazine Awards for 2008. We were pleased to se...

I feel like I keep repeating myself, the crisis is related to property and leverage. Unlike the tech bubble the issues caused by proper...

I didn’t think in the year 2000 that towards the end of the first decade we would see the financial world turning to the things that we...

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