Thursday, September 6, 2012
Almost everybody who isn’t a politician agrees that politicians lie. Actual politicians don’t see it that way, the see it as being forced to accept a series of working realities which unveils the way the system ‘actually works’ versus how we would ‘like it to work’. The truth is that in effect they do lie when you compare election promises to results, but they don’t do it with total intent.
But sometimes they do, and we are seeing that with our proposed property tax which is a clear demonstration of lap-dog leaders who want nothing more than to be ‘box tickers’ for the troika. You see, we are being told that ‘no decision has been made’, but that is contrary to the facts surrounding the debate once you do some digging.
We often hear that people in the public sector are overpaid. Typically the argument then turns towards the ‘fat cats’ and then quickly deteriorates into a ‘them’ vs ‘us’ debate, and depending on your employment type you take a certain side.
Recent surveys have indicated that there is a strong support towards buying a house, a whopping four out of five in a Millward Brown Lansdowne survey thought now is a good time to buy. This is on the back of a recent CSO statistic showing prices have didn’t change in March and in Dublin that they rose.
We are pleased to be writing for the Sun on Sunday, we think that taking high finance to people on the street in an easy to understand format in plain English is noble work, we hope you enjoy the column and are glad with the big number of questions we are now getting every week.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We are delighted to let you know that we are doing the personal finance and money column in the new Sun on Sunday. The column is called Mr. Money (taken from the UK one of the same name) and every week we’ll be covering financial topics, personal finance and answering readers questions.
The most recent edition is here, we look forward to keeping you up to date with everything as the new Sun on Sunday goes from strength to strength.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We were quoted in three separate articles in the Sunday papers this week.
The Sunday Times mentioned the report we did with MyHome.ie on property prices for investors (here), the full report is available over on MortgageBrokers.ie on the blog (here). Our view is that for investors there is still not a highly compelling reason to get into property.
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Tagged bank, dublin accountants, financial planning, financial review, insurance, personal financial advice, sunday business story mortgage, tax advice
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