Don’t follow me down this road. Contrarian moves. The markets took the single biggest battering since the 20% fall off experienced in the 1987 crash. It came on the back of a rejection ... Continue reading
Where is my bailout? The average investor has seen their portfolio decrease in value by about 20%, the average property owner is not far off that either. Th... Continue reading
It’s Official, we are in a recession: Irish recession 2008 I had said back in January that we were on the cusp of a recession, that this would have started out in Q1 and only be realised further... Continue reading
If I’m going to do your job at least pay me for it… the M50 There are now new ‘gateless’ tolls on the M50. And one thing that means is that the people who used to work there are now gone, further... Continue reading
So with lower house prices you make big savings right?….erm…kind of… There has been much talk in the papers from many respected sources giving people the message that ‘now that prices have dropped its a g... Continue reading
A different idea for bailing out the property sector. There is a bailout coming, we saw the makings of it for a long time, first there was the talk of the central bank about the underlying ... Continue reading
Tom Parlon, preaching to the subverted. I don’t often take swipes in this blog but today there is a difference, somebody or some one (preferably a qualified psychiatric profes... Continue reading
Financial Literacy: What is a Mortgage? How do mortgages work? Financial Literacy posts are designed to be more than just a simple definition, they are aimed at putting financial concepts into easil... Continue reading
Beat the bear that is beating the bull. There are many lessons to be garnered from a financial crisis, the downside is that for most people 99% of the lesson is delivered only... Continue reading