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Money Weekly with Peter Switzer

How to handle windfalls
Matt and Dave on the morning show on ABC radio in Adelaide asked me to give their listeners some advice in case they were lucky enough to have a nice windfall. Maybe the money might have come after a ...

Reminiscing on the March call
The goal I set myself when I put my fingers to the keyboard for my Yahoo column is to tell my readers something they don't know. I always hope that it will help them 'wisen' up - money-wise or busine...

Crown your wealth
It's unbelievably coincidental and even ironic that this blueprint for building wealth is being written in the Crown Hotel in Melbourne as the sounds of the pokies are tingling through the air up into...

Money talks
Over in the US on Wednesday - Thursday morning here - Wall Street closed and some great confidence boosting news was released. Intel, the world's biggest maker of microprocessors, beat expectations on...

The rate debate
The board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) are the biggest bunch of killjoys in the country, slugging new chums to the home loan caper with a rate rise that I think has been imposed too early in...

Shares smell sweet
There's a stench that some people seem to smell about shares, and the perceived pong has been pumped up thanks to the Global Financial Crisis, but it really worries me that poor old stocks are on the ...

Australia's booming population
As the Rudd Government and Malcolm Turnbull's Opposition debate the need to keep the stimulus to avoid a double dip of the economy resulting in job losses, we've failed to recognize an important econo...

Telstra hang up
The Rudd Government decision to put a gun to Telstra's head to create a forced separation of its wholesale and retail divisions, is not only a classic case of buyer beware when buying shares but also ...

Gold rush
It's the precious metal that men and women have killed for. It has sent people rushing to strange countries throughout the history of man and it's seen as an investment safe haven. Right now the price...

September remembered
With September kicking off with a negative, started by Wall Street, the question is - are we in for another September to remember? In case you forgot, and I can't see how you could have, Lehman Brothe...

Spooky months ahead
I know Julius Caesar's wife Calpurnia warned the Roman emperor to "beware the Ides of March" but investors would do better to worry about the months of September and October.There has been a bit of a ...

Scare tactics
Beware the Reserve Bank Governor who dons the Freddie Krueger role - he might scare you but it could be good for you! And beware his accessory after the fact - the members of the media - they can't he...

A few good men or women
When it comes to sorting out your money life I recommend two things - be honest with yourself and do something. If you need an image to get motivated, I suggest you think about the Jack Nicholson movi...

Money guru challenge
One of the challenges of being a so-called money guru is that people actually believe it and they set tasks that should only be reserved for those who are superhuman. These thoughts became obvious as ...

Picking stocks
There are many nice things about having your own television show but the one I like best of all is that you can ask smart guys or gals with access to great research teams to answer money questions tha...

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