Money seems less real now we live in a cashless society, a finance expert says. A Tauranga family could lose everything after racking up $380,000 in debt. Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Diane Bruin said the couple may need to go to insolvency but “had they sought help much earlier it could have changed the…
University debts another hurdle for struggling first home buyers. SHOULD I go to university or buy a house? Thats the distressing question the next generation of homebuyers may have to face. Its hard enough to save the deposit for a home in many Australian cities thanks to the Molotov Cocktail of skyrocketing house prices, low…
18th February 2017, 04:40 Families with children who are in debt could be given extra help to seek advice and support under new plans being recommended to the Government. The Families with Children and Young People in Debt (Respite) Bill – put forward by Conservative MP Kelly Tolhurst – will get a second reading later…
Michael Lee at the Austinmer pools as the storm hit on Friday afternoon. More than two years after he folded his firm, the pool restoration job is not complete. Picture: Sylvia Liber Council designs for the Austinmer pool renovation were flawed and not realistically able to be completed, claims the contractor whose company went into liquidation on…
Families with children who are in debt could be given extra help to seek advice and support under new plans being recommended to the Government. The Families with Children and Young People in Debt (Respite) Bill – put forward by Conservative MP Kelly Tolhurst – will get a second reading later this month. It hopes…
When Ekhlas Ahmed, a refugee from Darfur, Sudan, first came to the United States, she didnt speak a word of English. After getting off at the wrong bus stop on her first day of school and wandering around lost for eight hours, the young girl promised herself that she would master her new language. … Read…
Advisors often like their clients, but don’t like what their clients do. Take spending habits. If you’re advising a spendthrift buried in credit-card debt, the relationship can sour if the client refuses to stick to a budget. As debt mounts, the situation can grow unmanageable. “Most people already know the things they should do, so…
By Jonathan Beck News and Opinion Editor Emeritus This is how things were yesterday; this is how they are today; and therefore, this is how they ought always to be. I was disappointed in President John Hurleys letter to the Canisius community this past week, which I read as relying on the fallacy above. In…
The 2010-built MV Hammonia Grenada, which Rickmers sold for scrap in January, at a Singapore anchorage, January 11, 2016. By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) Beleaguered panamax containership owner Rickmers Maritime Trust (RMT) has pleaded with its creditors for help to restructure its debts. Singapore-headquartered RMT posted a full-year 2016 net loss of $180m, after charter…
A cancer diagnosis brings a lot of worries with it. One of the biggest and least discussed is money. Advertising Policy Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy Even if you have good insurance, all those co-pays…