From the category archives:
Debt
Preparing For The Storm
October 28, 2011 - 9 Comments
This week I had dinner with a super-sharp senior investment banker from the US. As we finished our dinner, we discussed three possible outcomes of the impending debt-induced turmoil…
Read moreBarefoot Reader Mailbag
August 5, 2011 - 22 Comments
Should I be worried about the share market crash?
Read more$327,000 in Credit Card Debt and Drowning
July 29, 2011 - 15 Comments
While all the talk this week has centered on raising the debt ceiling, the real issue is the debt, and in particular the out-of-control spending that has caused it.
Read moreThe Bankrupt Businessman
June 3, 2011 - 16 Comments
My life changed forever twelve months ago when I made the decision to put my business into voluntary liquidation. To tell my staff of twelve that the business we had built from scratch over the last decade had ceased trading was the hardest day of my life.
Read moreWarning: There’s No Such Thing as Easy Money
February 18, 2011 - 11 Comments
At some level each of us is attracted to the idea of making easy money. It’s an urge we all have, yet whether we act on it is another story. Let me tell you about two blokes who did.
Read moreShould I Lend Money To My Hubby?
November 12, 2010 - 1 Comment
Hi Scott, you have given some great advice on debt and borrowing money, but I was wondering what your take is on lending money to your spouse?
Read moreMy Wedding Debt Lasted Longer Than My Marriage
October 29, 2010 - 10 Comments
“I should have invited my bank manager to my wedding – the money I borrowed for my big day stuck around longer than my husband did”…
Read moreThe Computer Says I Can Lend You Sixty Grand
October 1, 2010 - 25 Comments
Beau, a teenager who worked at a hotel, was on the phone with his bank. Like most teenage boys, all he dreamed about was driving a really hot car – in Beau’s case, a $15,000 Japanese racing car like those in the movie The Fast and the Furious. The thought of spending 60 grand made him uneasy…
Read moreScott Responses to Some Barefoot Questions
July 9, 2010 - 8 Comments
My name is Jane and I am so far in the red that I’m starting to look like Julia Gillard…
Read moreBarefoot Money Confessions
June 11, 2010 - 9 Comments
I returned home from the US last month with three thousand, four hundred and twenty two unread emails (most of them from my mother). A month later I’ve whittled it down to about eighty.
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