As our personal debt burden worsens – and it will as interest rates rise – the new government will have to finally have to...
Author: Jill Kerby
Someone will pay during coalition’s first 100 days
Someone will pay during coalition’s first 100 days
The new government may promise to ‘hit the ground running’, and that its first 100 days will be crucial to the success of its...
Life insurance payouts continuing to escalate
Life insurance payouts continuing to escalate
For many parents, losing their job also means losing other employment benefits such as life insurance. These include disability...
FG’s negative equity pledge is meaningless
FG’s negative equity pledge is meaningless
Fine Gael’s promise to rescue mortgage holders in negative equity by extending more mortgage interest relief to them should make...
The big money questions for reluctant canvassers
The big money questions for reluctant canvassers
I’m very lucky that I live on a busy street on Inner City Dublin. And I’m blessed with good and friendly neighbours, a lot of...
Politicians should prepare for Universal Social Charge anger
Politicians should prepare for Universal Social Charge anger
Here’s something to ask the next politician who comes seeking your vote in the upcoming general election: what are they going to...
Few exempt from increased austerity
Few exempt from increased austerity
Every year comes with a new set of big money issues or trends. Well, 2011 is no different except that our ongoing debt problem...
Act now to cut your health cover costs
Act now to cut your health cover costs
Is the private health insurance industry model ‘broken’, as the VHI boss Jimmy Tolan has suggested? Have older people been...
What a year: 2010 in review
What a year: 2010 in review
I doubt that too many people are going to miss the year 2010 – at least not from a financial perspective. Yet we’ve all come...
Make up Budget shortfall with price comparisons
Make up Budget shortfall with price comparisons
I suspect that it will take some time before the effects of Budget 2011 sink in. I expect the vast majority of us will only...
Is this the first Budget of 2011 or the endgame?
Is this the first Budget of 2011 or the endgame?
The first Great Recession Budget for 2011 has just been presented but too late for this column’s deadline. However, with an...
Tax Blitz begins in 2011
Tax Blitz begins in 2011
Next week we will all know the tax and social welfare details that were included in last week’s four year National Recovery...
