As with the very best mentors, I didn’t just learn from the advice Tim Fischer gave me — or the many doors he opened for me — but by watching him. Today I want to talk about the difference he made in my life, writes the Barefoot Investor.
Businesses are clearly attracted to subscriptions for the lucrative recurring revenue but beware of corporate gangsters out to sign up your kids, writes the Barefoot Investor.
Engaging teenagers has been the hardest thing I have ever done in my career but in a few short years these kids will be fresh meat for financial institutions, so while they’re still in school, they need to learn how the game works against them, writes the Barefoot Investor.
After inviting readers to open up about being scammed, the Barefoot Investor received a raft of stories involving guilt, shame, and threats of humiliation. So this week’s financial lessons come from the questions, not the answers.
IT WAS a corker of a deal. In 2012 the Labor Government, fresh from ballsing up GroceryWatch, FuelWatch and RuddWatch, announced they were putting the screws on the Big Four banks.
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THIS week Treasurer Joe Hockey has pulled on his boxing gloves and labelled the multinationals “cheats” and “thieves” for not paying their fair share of tax.
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AS one of the forefathers of modern technology, Steve Jobs realised the internet was a revolution that would transform our lives. Yet he also foresaw that his devices were like crack cocaine for our concentration.
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IT’S official: we’re a bunch of financial fatties. This week it was revealed that Australian households have the world’s biggest level of debt.
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“DADDY give me a bikkie?” asks my toddler, Louie. “No. Not until you have eaten all your vegies,” I say firmly, staring him down with my best Julie Bishop face.
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