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Money Weekly with Peter Switzer

Unfair execution
The most dangerous aspect of the new age of interactive media is that we so-called experts can be nailed by a viewer question or a chat room assassin. Now, I'm not saying that some nailing can't be go...

Confidence in confidence
Beware economic geeks bearing negative 'gifts' and remember Julie Andrews when the bad news bearers start to get you down - your country could depend on you getting this right.Given this unusual intro...

Tax lessons
Believe it or not but there seems to be around 280,000 people in this country who don't want to accept a $900 plus gift from the Government! Mind you, I reckon the number who have a philosophical aver...

Playing the rally
The question I am fielding all the time right now is - how do I play this rally? A related one is about whether the worst is behind us and is it time to buy shares?Regular readers know I have pointed ...

No recession
It's official - Australia is NOT in recession! And no matter what negative, doomsday merchants want to say to justify their incorrect calls, there's no official recession here.This is great news and w...

In a fix
For those in a quandary over whether they should be fixing their home loan interest rates or gambling on the more volatile variable rate of interest, this is your chance to see what's going on in my h...

The Fine Print
Budget night and the day after always catch a lot of media attention, but I always look forward to the weekend after when the smartest guys and gals in accounting firms and financial institutions get ...

An irresponsible Budget
Every year I do the economics wrap up on Australia's Federal Budget in Brisbane for the accounting group PriceWaterhouseCoopers where over 900 people flock to find out how their business and personal ...

Budget expectations
In case you missed it, Tuesdays are really important in Australia. The one event that stops a nation, as the legendary Mark Twain put it - the horse race called the Melbourne Cup - is on the first Tue...

Headline negativity
Am I the only guy in Australia who believes that the only thing to fear is fear itself, and what the media can do with a fearsome headline? The answer is no as I have met small business people who are...

Home sweet home
If we 'numbercrunched' 40 years of working and contributed say 15% of your income to superannuation and buying investment properties, I reckon you would end up richer than buying the home you will liv...

Super knowledge
Once upon a time I saw a Gary Larson cartoon which portrayed a range of dogs at a dinner party all looking bored. The caption, as I choose to remember it, read: "Everyone was having a great time until...

Managing your own super
Even before super funds took a nosedive with the global financial crash, the number of Aussies venturing into Do-It-Yourself super funds was around 2,500 a month! This number is expected to grow with ...

The advice advantage
Recently a bank asked me to explain what the Federal Government was doing for small business in these recession-threatening times. After putting the dribs and drabs offerings together, it drove home a...

The end of the bear?
A recent survey showed 70% of Australians think the world is heading into - wait for it! - a depression and that we're going into recession. Apart from the concern that we have all turned our sentimen...

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