Don’t spend $85k on two degrees that won’t get you a job
HECS is ‘good debt’, Barefoot Investor tells a mother who paid off her struggling son’s $85,000 bill because he was unable to find a well-paying job or save for a house.
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Why buying and holding shares trumps US election winner
In terms of your portfolio, it doesn’t matter who wins the US election, says Barefoot Investor. What does matter is that you buy and hold shares and weather the political storms.
Blindsided bride calls off wedding over $9k Uber Eats debt
Barefoot Investor tells a bride-to-be who discovered her fiancé’s $9000 Afterpay and Uber Eats debt to ‘give love a chance’ before kicking him to the kerb.
Parents at odds over son who squandered their $30k loan
A couple who loaned their son and his partner $30,000 for a home loan only to have them squander it are at odds about what they should do. Scott Pape has some advice.
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Ding, ding ding! Is your car spying on you?
Car giants can track and sell our every move and the buyers of that data feed it into algorithms and use it against us, warns Barefoot Investor.
Romance scammer leaves mum $240k out of pocket
Financial scams are more common than ever, but how do you get yourself out of that situation and keep your self respect?
Go regional: Barefoot Investor’s advice as cost of living bites
Readers inundated Barefoot with support after he called out the health insurance sector for being unaffordable and confusing. But this week, teachers get schooled.
Save big bucks with Barefoot’s top health insurance tips
There are 26,000 different policies and it’s almost impossible to work out how to get a good deal … which is exactly how the health funds like it, says Barefoot Investor.
‘Unsexy’ business the best way to make money
I want to talk to you about what I genuinely believe is the opportunity of a lifetime. No, it’s not becoming an AI expert or influencer.
Not so fast! Hidden cost of cheap fashion
Chinese brand Shein has put fast fashion into hyperspeed, adding 6000 new styles every day, but Scott Pape warns that $7 jeans have a hidden cost.
Barefoot Investor and his deepfake video nightmare
For all the hype around AI, Scott Pape says the big winners are scammers who have weaponised deepfake videos on people like him to con victims out of their life savings.
Scott Pape: Why PM broke his tax cuts promise
Poor Albo, he’s scared witless about the cost of living crisis. He’s tinkering at the edges and praying to the global inflation gods that things will sort themselves out.
Survival tales from Barefoot’s epic family adventure
Barefoot’s back after traversing Europe with his family in a six-berth motorhome and says he learned a lot about himself as a husband, father and leader in pressure cooker moments.
’So embarrassed’: Mum’s anger over son’s car loan wreck
Get your boots on, Mama! When you’re angry that your 20-year-old son has left his ex-girlfriend stranded with a $21k car loan and no car, Barefoot has some sound advice.
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