Yesterday, in Too eager for an interest rate cut?, we said that Fourth, an interest rate cut by the RBA need not necessary mean a cut in the mortgage rate. In fact, the opposite can occur.

As all of you would have known by now, news of a likely default by Dubai World, a sovereign wealth fund of Dubai, had the effect of a screaming “BOO!” to the global financial markets....

When you trawl through the mainstream media, blogs and pundits’ opinions, you will notice that there’s increasing reservation on China’s ‘impressive’ economic growth....

By conventional wisdom, government debt is supposed to be the safest form of debt because governments cannot default on debt repayment due to their powers of taxation and monopoly on creation of...

Imagine you owe a lot of credit card debt. And also imagine you have a prodigal son who blew lots of money away in gambling debts and asked you for a bailout. So, you borrow more from your credit...

If you still have lots of spare bullets in your investing arsenal (i.e. lots of spare cash free for investment), it is very tempting to use them up in fear of missing out on further rally. But if...