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“If the property value goes up every seven or eight years and it doubles, which I understand, I agree – how many years do you have to hold the property for the property to make enough cashflow… to cover your mortgage, your rates, your water and all your outgoings?  Ladies and gentleman it’s sixteen years.  [...]

My view for the last two years on the stock market has been consistent. But I thought it would be handy to jot it down here so it’s plain for you to see. In this week’s Money Weekend I’ll give you a brief outline of where you should have your money right now… I’ll break [...]

Strap yourself in reader. Today’s episode is a long one… Ah, we love the quote from ANZ Bank [ASX: ANZ] chief Mike Smith in today’s Australian Financial Review (AFR): “It would appear he’s [Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey] been taking economics lessons from Hugo Chavez and I don’t really see there’s much future in Australia for [...]

Have you checked your insurance policy lately? Is it up to date? Do you have any insurance? Are you under or over insured? Don’t worry, I’m not trying to sell life insurance. We’re not licenced for that. No, I’m talking about something more important – investment insurance. Buying investment insurance is just like buying any [...]

The property spruikers have gotten themselves quite excited about an article by PIMCO Australia chief, John Wilson in Business Spectator last week. Mr. Wilson headlined the article, “Our non-existent housing bubble.” As you can pretty much guess from the headline, Mr. Wilson sums up the article saying: “The demand for housing is determined by the [...]

Your editor is working from home in Frankston today. We’re trying to concentrate our mind on the September issue of Australian Small-Cap Investigator.
We think we’ve just about recovered from the jet lag after our 25 hour journey from Boston to Melbourne. But at least it wasn’t as bad as the 50 hour journey [...]

Your editor is back on-board. But only for the time being.
Because for today and the next few days we’re racing against the calendar to write, edit and publish the September issue of Australian Small-Cap Investigator.
And seeing as my colleagues, Slipstream Trader Murray Dawes and Diggers & Drillers editor, Dr. Alex Cowie have done such [...]

Today I thought we’d follow up on a couple of the stories we wrote over the last week or so. Plus, we’ve had a rummage through the Money Morning mailbag to see some of the comments we’ve received.
We’ll head back to last week and our comments about property in our article, “How 70% of [...]

Today we’ll have a little crack at the National Broadband Network (NBN). But before we do, let’s have a quick follow up to Wednesday’s Money Morning.
It never ceases to amaze us the wonderful job the property spruikers have done to convince investors that making a loss on an investment is a gain.
As we mentioned [...]

Before I get on to today’s Money Morning, a quick follow up from yesterday.
In yesterday’s Money Morning I referred to a research report prepared by Morgan Stanley analyst Gerard Minack. At the time we went to press we hadn’t received permission from Mr. Minack to show you the charts.
Normally, if it’s publicly available material [...]