Every year comes with a new set of big money issues or trends. Well, 2011 is no different except that our ongoing debt problem...
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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...
Debt group offers a lifeline – of sorts – to homeowners
Debt group offers a lifeline – of sorts – to homeowners
The arrival of the IMF last week overshadowed another piece of important news that involves ordinary people, for once: hard...
Can we escape the debt at the heart of our crisis?
Can we escape the debt at the heart of our crisis?
How can the ordinary person make any sense of what is happening to this country when the so-called experts – the economists,...
Don’t avoid your debts; confront them with MABS’ help
Don’t avoid your debts; confront them with MABS’ help
One of the most worrying experiences for an ordinary law abiding citizen is to be summoned before a court of law, even if it is...
Absolute return’ funds get the investors’ nod
Absolute return’ funds get the investors’ nod
November 16th is the final online Revenue pay and file deadline for anyone who is obliged to make a tax return on non PAYE...
Solidarity bond not the ticket to riches
Solidarity bond not the ticket to riches
About 11,500 people have invested €255 million so far in the 10-year National Solidarity Bond, the government’s new savings...
Prepare for the Budget by saving money now
Prepare for the Budget by saving money now
Now that the country has a handle – just about – on the bank bailout, is it possible to work out how that that €50 billion...
