The key to wealth is… a four-letter word.
Debt, growth assets and time are the perfect ingredients
for Generation X to create real wealth.
If you were born in the ’60s or ’70s, remember Billy Ray
Cyrus, BMX Bandits, Sony Walkmans, the fall of the Berlin
Wall, ‘Who Shot JR?’, the dot-eating Pac-Man —
and you’re wondering how any of that could improve your
financial position — then this book is wa-a-ay overdue.
Debt Man Walking will have you marching to a different
financial beat, because Gen X’s money needs are distinctive.
Inside this book you’ll discover:
* how to maximise your opportunities using investment debt
* that there are actually three types of debt: dumb, okay and
great
* that your ‘relative’ youth + diversification =
wealth
* how you can double your super nest egg in 15 minutes
* why life as a Gen Xer is an excellent adventure … dude.
Jadual kandungan
Dedication vii
Acknowledgements ix
About the author xiii
Prologue xvii
Introduction 1
Step 1: Write your own ticket 17
Step 2: Money’s simple rules 33
Step 3: Risky business 53
Step 4: Gen X’s investment edge 75
Step 5: Home: investment central 107
Step 6: Investing: the debt mantra 123
Step 7: Tax, Santa and other little helpers 153
Step 8: Blockbuster budgeting 175
Step 9: Cover your ass(ets) 193
Step 10: Choose your own … neverending story 217
Conclusion 245
Appendix A: The X-Flips 247
Appendix B: 50 investment, gearing and ‘Gen X
Rules’ rules 253
Appendix C: Glossary 261
Recommend to a friend 273
Index 275
Mengenai Pengarang
Bruce Brammall is a successful investor, best-selling
author, financial adviser, business journalist, columnist… and,
by pure luck, a Gen Xer. Now, as Debt Man, he has donned his
gearing cape, exited the phone box and is ready to save his
Slacker generation with a clearly articulated 10-step plan to help
them supercharge their finances.