If you’ve ever played video games, you might be aware of cheat codes. If you haven’t played video games, the term refers to the ability to hit a sequence of buttons on a controller or numbers and characters on a keyboard which change the way a game can be played. The cheat code may offer the ability to jump forward in the game to a later level, or give a player extra strength, stamina, invincibility or unlimited weapons and ammunition or just find hidden items that can be used to make the game easier. The type of cheat depends on…

They were on the main street of every large and small town. They were in suburbs and there were multiples of them in cities. They were crowded with people most nights of the week, especially Fridays. Many were small businesses owned by families, but there were also large chains who owned stores across states and countries. Video stores. Slowly over the past decade they’ve almost all disappeared. The giant of the industry, Blockbuster, has one store left in Australia and one store left in the US. The US store is making the most of its notoriety or nostalgia by selling…

Men and women are different when it comes to money. Not the most outrageous statement. It’s something financial advisers who sit across the desk from the sexes on a daily basis have no problem telling you. What are the differences? If you want to make it simple, women are about security and men are about freedom. That’s what money generally means to each. How does that work for them when investing? A study earlier this year by Stash, a US based investment app, found that it works better for the women. Stash had quite a hefty data set to work…

James Cordier of optionsellers.com is the type of guy who you don’t really know who he is, or what he does, but he’s someone who provides those assured sounding quotes on the direction of markets on the business channels. As his website used to say, he’s been featured on (or in) CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN Money & Barron’s, among others. Cordier’s fame reached beyond the confines of the business channels this week, though he won’t be posting any of those articles up for prospective investors. His website is gone. Now just a baby blue…

If you haven’t heard, house prices in Australia’s largest cities have been falling. In Sydney and Melbourne, auction clearance rates are wallowing in the low 40% range (it may even be lower given the transparency of the data) and the price decline in Sydney has extended out to 15 months without any signs of a turn around. Measured against other downturns, it’s not yet remarkable. The falls have fuelled a furious guessing game from various real estate industry pundits. Their previous calls of where the markets would go in Sydney and Melbourne have been skittled and are now being continually…